Though the 2016 election was a surprising turn of events for people all around the world as the unexpected candidate Donald Trump snatched the Republican nomination from out of nowhere then created the greatest electoral upset in nearly a century; it is not as surprising as finding a Lovecraftian horror infesting the woods near your where you live. Though maybe for some of you it was. Here author and fellow blogger Matthew Quinn lays out how some of his characters from his recent novel, The Thing in the Woods would most likely have acted if this story were set ten years further on in history during an election year. Being set in rural Georgia (a state which Trump carried with over 50% of the vote) it is easy to see how the ages and occupations of these characters set them out in support of nefarious goings on, or bias them against it and how such biases can be used to make excellent conflict in stories. I'll let Mr. Quinn take it from here and show you what he means.
The 2016
presidential election was, at least in part, a generational conflict. A
significant chunk of Donald Trump's support came from older, more
traditionalist people who disliked recent cultural and economic changes. Fears
of "cultural displacement" motivated members of the white working
class to vote for a man one would think
resembles a particularly boorish boss instead of a champion of the little guy. A
great many self-identified Christians supported Trump despite his
history of rancidly un-Christian behavior for much the same reason.
