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This reminds me of a typical MAGA rally and notice the hand signal Peter Sellers flashes after the shooting. No wonder this was suppressed for almost 50 years.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)or Drump who was a con man. That one was so freaky that it really did make you wonder.
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)the one you're thinking of? Not Serling but it was creepy.
Sanity Claws
(21,822 posts)I thought it was The Twilight Zone. Thanks for giving me the correct attribution.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)after googling the words trump, cbs, 1958.
Incredibly uncanny. The guy called Trump is a con man.who sows fear in the people.about a meteor shower destroying the town at midnight. Sells a "wall" of protection that consists of "magic" parasols. Claims that only he has the special knowledge and defense to save them.
The sheriff tefuses to stop the fraud because no one can prove Trump wrong. The town judge takes the same position.
In the end, Trump makes a bundle of money but is stopped from leaving town with it by Robert Culp. The sheriff is exposed as an accomplice. The people set aside their parasols, midnight comes, nothing happens.
The parallels are spooky -- Trump name, con job through fesr, a wall of protection in Texas, complicity by law enforcement, indifference of the judge, mob attitude toward the one man who sees through it and warns people.
Afromania
(2,767 posts)Tech
(1,764 posts)Thanks for sharing, never saw it. Amazing and frightening.
On edit, the name of the episode is A Carol For Another Christmas.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Never seen this before. Spot on. Thanks for sharing.
kacekwl
(6,993 posts)From me drumph to the brainwashed deplorables. It's like this is the script used by all want to be dictators.
Harker
(13,870 posts)Try "He's Alive" from 1963.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)when it came up on TCM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Carol_for_Another_Christmas. TCM runs it every year. It's a bit tendentious but the Trumpiness of the Imperial Me scene is pretty scary.