Stephen King- Predicts Trump like President in "The Dead Zone"

Famous author Stephen King is known to be pretty liberal. Yet you can't deny he has written some amazing stories in lifetime. One of those being IT, and the current adaption is great btw. After watching it in theaters this weekend I've been on a King kick, watching a a bunch of old King based films. One of those being The Dead Zone(1983) with Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen. (Spoilers Obviously)

(just a parody the real clips are below)

In the film Walken plays a man with telepathic abilities allowing him to see the future and past through psychic visions. After deciding to hang up his powers to help the police due to the danger and notoriety directed at him, he finds himself obligated to use them again when a politician using totalitarian rhetoric (Sheen) decides to run for Senate with grander plans of one day becoming president.

Walken sees in a vision that Sheen will become president and start a nuclear war. He then poses the question to his WWII surviving Doctor, If you could have stoped Hilter whilst knowing the future of his life, would you feel obligated to do it?

Walken then decides to assassinate Sheen and in a turn of events Sheen uses a child as a shield defaming his character leading to him losing the election, all while Walken is shot and killed by security.

Now I'm not saying that Trump is Hilter or that he will start a nuclear war, but the simple rhetoric he choose such as the "make America great again," trope have been used time and time again throughout history. Cant stress enough that Nazi Germany is far removed from our current situation in the States . But I do think that US as a super power will come to a slow decline. Empires in decline have many of the same features, over extended militaries, debt, excess, and leaders who promise to bring it back and make society "great again." and most did the opposite.

The German philosopher Hegel (1770-1831) knew that just because men and women learned about the past, that didn’t mean they’d make better decisions about the future. He once cynically commented, “What experience and history teach us is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

No matter how many cautionary tales or historic references you can compare Trump to . . . the age old authoritarian rhetoric worked