The Metaphysics of Defeating Trump

It starts with the power of a thought

Mitch Horowitz
4 min readSep 26, 2018

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Critics complain — quite rightly — that Donald Trump occupies his own reality, as he fires off bizarre denials of the casualties from Puerto Rico’s hurricane, fantasizes over “deep state” conspiracies, and wraps himself in an economic recovery that began under Obama. For these reasons and more, I have called Trump “a kind of Frankenstein…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China