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| This type of divination used to be the stuff of comedy. Now we have a former President of the United States claiming such abilities. |
Amidst his ongoing battle over possession of classified documents after leaving the White House, the Roach told Sean Hannity that Presidents can declassify documents "even by thinking about it." For me, this signals a new manifestation of his deepening mental illness. None of this will faze his rabid MAGA supporters whatsoever: many of them believe that their lives are governed by a supernatural force, with whom they believe they can communicate with.They also believe that Roach was sent by said supernatural force. Therefore for these folks, it is entirely logical that Roach would possess such abilities.
Meanwhile in Italy, Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right, Nationalist, post-Facist leader who is likely to be the next prime minister of Italy, is a huge Hobbit fan. In her youth, she dressed the part and joined in numerous cos-play events. As a politician, she has integrated LOTR into her ideology declaring that the book series is sacred text. “I think that Tolkien could say better than us what conservatives believe in,” said Ms. Meloni. In Italy for the past half-century, LOTR has been a central pillar upon which descendants of post-Fascism reconstructed a hard-right identity, looking to a traditionalist mythic age for symbols, heroes and creation myths free of Fascist taboos.
Crazy stuff like this is happening all over the world and people believe, reinforcing the famous PT Barnum quote "There's a sucker born every minute."
PS. Meloni indeed has become the PM of Italy.
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