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Trump's wider audience
After a column of mine mentioned one of Trump’s conversations with the dead, I was contacted by Karen Park, a professor of theology and religious studies at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis. “My sense is that this is what passes for spirituality for Trump — a world where imaginary dead white people take an elevator to a heavenly penthouse where they look down on him with approval,” she told me.
Many of us believe in an afterlife or at least take comfort in thinking our departed loved ones are, in some form, still with us. But Park is suspicious of Trump’s self-serving “fantasies about happy dead people blessing his presidency and this country.” Such fantasies “make us feel good and require nothing from us at all,” argued Park, who specializes in American religious history.