Great Escape

The Trump Cult?

A charismatic leader, mind control, and other telltale signs

Douglas Rushkoff
GEN
Published in
12 min readAug 17, 2018

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OnOn October 23, 1863, when the expected apocalypse failed to occur, an estimated 100,000 followers of breakaway Christian prophet William Miller descended from their rooftops in what the mainstream media assumed would be disgrace and embarrassment. “When the world stubbornly refused to come…

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Douglas Rushkoff
GEN
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Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm