Folks, I haven’t agreed with Marianne Williamson about much, and I’ve pointed out several times that I don’t literally believe Trump is secretly serving Moloch or Mammon or Antichrist or whatever, but as I’ve also said repeatedly, if he were, he’d do exactly what he’s BEEN doing.
Marianne Williamson
 @marwilliamson
23 May 2020
1/ When I talked on the debate stage about “dark psychic forces,” it’s not just that I wasn’t crazy. I wasn’t wrong. The pathological energies roiling underneath the surface of the Trump phenomenon haven’t even begun to show their full force yet.
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Along those lines, I would recommend to you, as I often have in the past, David Bentley Hart’s comparison of Donald Trump to the devil, from 2011. firstthings.com/web-exclusiv…

A Person You Flee At Parties | David Bentley Hart

Forgive me for simply laying out a sequence of random thoughts (on a single theme) that occurred to me a few hours ago, as I was swimming around in my morning cistern of coffee; but it seems to be...

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Replying to @RonHogan
Add Tim Snyder and a history of World War II, and you start to see what’s going on.

May 23, 2020 · 8:55 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I confess I skipped Snyder! I read Robert Anton Wilson as an impressionable lad, which made me a skeptical but open-minded lad, then tracked down Wilhelm Reich, eventually found my way back to the mainstream and Arendt. Which means, perhaps, it’s time to catch up to “On Tyranny.”
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