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Trump, the Magic Candidate

No one is safe from his spell.

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Jul 25, 2024
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The following essay is not just about Donald Trump. It is about the last three weeks in American politics — among the craziest in recent memory. This moment, moreover, has a chief protagonist.

This essay shows Tara Isabella Burton at her best. In 2020, Tara published Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, where she explored “the cults, practic…

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Țara Isabella Burton
Author of SELF-MADE: CREATING OUR IDENTITIES FROM DA VINCI TO THE KARDASHIANS (PublicAffairs, 2023), STRANGE RITES: NEW RELIGIONS FOR A GODLESS WORLD and the novels SOCIAL CREATURE, THE WORLD CANNOT GIVE, and the forthcoming HERE IN AVALON
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