Trump’s magical appeal: fears of contagion and anthropological clues

 

There’s a new cottage industry devoted to explanations of the quasi-mystical appeal of Donald Trump. Is he a prosperity gospel preacher? A Platonic tyrant? Or is he a truth-telling jester?At the Los Angeles Times, Peter Manseau recently tried to bring some critical theory to this exercise,

Source: Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues | Religion Dispatches

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