Charles Manson, Donald Trump, and the Machinery of Manipulation
How Charismatic Leaders Exploit the Vulnerable and Bend Reality to Their Will
This evening, I’ve been watching Chaos, the new Netflix documentary on Charles Manson. As the film progressed, it struck me that there was something disturbingly familiar about it beyond the horrific story itself. It took a while for me to pinpoint what it was at first.
I initially thought it had to do with the film Se7en, a stylized murder flick starri…