A controversial, anti-establishment politician with a frenzied fan-based. Plenty of people would read that description and think of Donald Trump.
But it also describes a character that features in Stephen King's "The Dead Zone".
In this episode we explore how the horror writer's novel, first published in 1979, was a long way ahead of its time.
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