In the late 1970’s and early 80’s the New Deal era where the government regulated businesses and protected citizens from the excesses of capitalism was­ overturned by Neoliberalism the idea that the market, left to its own devices, would produce an optimal economic system.   Neoliberalism was wildly successful at producing billionaires.  Their incredible wealth, disproportionate far beyond historical norms, has now bought a United States President. In his book Midnight Kingdom Jared Yates Sexton traces the origins of apocalyptic religious traditions that have shaped the Trump phenonium and what life under autocracy has been like historically.