2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Dead Zone: Did Stephen King Predict the Rise of Trump? (This is eerie)
This was back in March but even more relevant today:
http://www.inquisitr.com/2895400/the-dead-zone-did-stephen-king-predict-the-rise-of-donald-trump/
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,860 posts)His tweet (shown in your article):
Populist demagogues like He Who Must Not Be Named aren't a new thing; see THE DEAD ZONE, published 37 years ago.
gordianot
(15,261 posts)Imagine a President Nixon and Cuban missle crisis....eerie.
ailsagirl
(22,912 posts)cry baby
(6,682 posts)nolabear
(42,009 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)mucifer
(23,634 posts)Cheeto is Greg Stilson.
RJMacReady
(14 posts)The parallels between "Greg Stillson" and D.T. are numerous. The King character had more inate intelligence I think, just enough to be REALLY dangerous. I can't decide if I want D.T. to self destruct or not. At best, he might usher in a completely Dem majority in Congress as well as POTUS. If they pull him for a slimy but competent replacement, like Cruz or Jeb, we could be in for a battle. I guess I hope he stays, keeps broadcasting his ignorance to the world: Yes Donald, we have enough nukes to blow up the world three times over. No Donald, you can't use them. (#1) No Donald, you can't use them. (#2) Jesus Donald, NO, you can't use them! (#3). D.T: "Why not, they're paid for aren't they?" What a knuckle dragging moron. Release your taxes you slimy twit. RJM
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)When I read the part with the alternate history if Kennedy had lived, I was thinking that Trump could play the same role George Wallace played - seizing on a backlash after racial progress to get elected based on law and order and a racist platform following a young, charismatic two-term president, and then getting us into a nuclear war.
I thought that was kind of eerie.