“It was a boogeyman of mine, and I never wanted to see him actually on the American political scene,” the author said
, a sci-fi/thriller that followed the rise of a “real estate con man” turned political demagogue, to the current occupant of the White House.
“I was sort of convinced that it was possible that a politician would arise who was so outside the mainstream and so willing to say anything that he would capture the imaginations of the American people,” King said.King explained how the main character in his story, Greg Stillson, was at first taken as a joke because of the stunts he’d pull at his rallies.
King then explained that it wasn’t so much of a premonition but more of assessment of the American public that lead him to believe that of a Greg Stillson type could actually ascend to power one day. “I know that American voters have always had a real attraction to outsiders with the same kind of right-wing ‘America First’ policy,” King said. “And if that reminds people of Trump, I can’t be sorry because it was a character that I wrote. It was a boogeyman of mine, and I never wanted to see him actually on the American political scene, but we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as president of the United States.
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