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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)I feel Sen Stillson was more like Ted Cruz....I can see Cruz as president doing this.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)...but I bet even Donald uses a password.
chrisau214
(235 posts)'The Dead Zone' was published in 1979. The movie version was released in 1983.
The movie version of Stillson is a scary character. The book version is scary times ten.
localroger
(3,605 posts)...as in, nobody would really believe that a huckstering asswipe could hustle his way into the Oval Office. Of course Reagan already had, but he was at least a semi-competent actor who was obviously on a leash held by his corporate handlers. Book Stillson is Trump without his inheritance, and Trump is Stillson with a billion dollars, to at least three significant figures.
Neither Stillson nor Trump were "trained" in the hypnotic arts as Scott Adams was, but they both have a natural aptitude which was shared in real life by people like Joseph (How many card-carrying communists are there today) McCarthy. Take that aptitude, combine it with a total lack of fealty to anything except your own ego, and you have a guy who would push the button just to see what happens.