007: "My name is Anon…Q-Anon"
NYT….they knew.
(((▪︎Witchcraft on the Campaign Trail▪︎)))
The idea has been flying about for a while now, at least since the summer’s cries to lock up or hang the Democratic presidential candidate. Earlier on, Ben Carson helpfully linked her to Lucifer. After the first debate, Rush Limbaugh made the designation official: In a double-barreled attack, he declared that Hillary Clinton came off “exactly as many people see her — a witch with a capital ‘B.’”
A conservative editor recently begged his readers not to elect Mrs. Clinton; were she to land in the White House, his health would deteriorate. She would upset his stomach. She would shorten his life. He sounded steeped in witchcraft texts. Those are classic symptoms of enchantment — in the pre-Enlightenment world.
As we dust off the broomsticks and pointy hats, it seems fair to ask what exactly we mean by a witch these days.
In some respects the 21st-century witch — someone who is one because others insist she is, not because she identifies as a Wiccan priestess — closely resembles her early American forebears. A Maine police officer in a “Hillary for prison” T-shirt succinctly defined the term at a September rally: “An angry, crotchety old hag who is just out for power, who just wants to be able to line her pockets.”
When sorcery arrived on these shores, when New Englanders hanged witches, they worked in part from that stereotype. Witches could enchant rope, cause fences to disappear, make stomachs lurch with a glance, transform themselves into balls of fire, disturb their neighbors’ dreams. They might also appear shrill, vindictive or calculating, three adjectives that the conservative editor rallied last week when he implored readers to spare him “four years of this witch as president.”
The early modern American understood a witch to be a confederate of the devil; he took literally the biblical command: “Though shalt not suffer the witch to live.” He was also more egalitarian than we are. For him, “witch” was a gender-neutral term. He condemned enterprising ship captains along with muttering, menopausal malcontents. And he was more creative: In the course of the Salem witch trials, men and women stood accused for a whole catalog of reasons. (Running for political office may actually have figured among them: A rich merchant was accused weeks after he had been elected a Salem selectman.) The uncommonly strong or unaccountably smart raised suspicions. Indeed, a witch often committed the capital crime of displaying more wit than her neighbors, as was said of the third woman to hang in Massachusetts, in 1656…..cont.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/opinion/witchcraft-on-the-campaign-trail.amp.html
SHE’S A WITCH!
(((Hannity and Drudge Cite WikiLeaks to Claim Clinton Campaign Worships Satan)))
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hannity-and-drudge-cite-wikileaks-to-claim-clinton
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(((The First Ladies Who Brought the Occult to the White House)))
~Over the years, several presidents' wives—including Mary Todd Lincoln and Nancy Reagan—turned to spiritual practices like seances and astrology~
Emails or Benghazi or a blue Gap dress, Hillary Clinton dealt with a much less controversial stain on her character, which was that she reportedly liked to gab with high-profile dead people. In the 1996 book The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won, author Bob Woodward, no stranger to a good scandal, wrote that the former First Lady communicated with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi during her husband's term—though not Jesus, as that would've been, according to Woodward's retelling, "too personal."
((("I occasionally have imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to try to figure out what she would do in my shoes," Clinton wrote in a newspaper column. "She usually responds by telling me to buck up or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros.")))
Sensational interpretations quickly followed: Clinton was holding seances in the White House. Alas, the fun didn't last long, as sacred psychologist Jean Houston responded to Woodward's assertions, clarifying that Clinton's chats were simply "imaginative exercises" to help with Clinton's book project. But while Clinton preferred to keep her scandalous activity tied to the here and now, other First Ladies weren't so dismissive of the occult. From communing with the dead to palmistry, spiritualism has attracted many First Ladies, especially as a strategy for dealing with the demands of living and working in the White House….cont.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/broadly.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/xwzvwn/the-first-ladies-who-brought-witchcraft-to-the-white-house