...Egil Asprem The election of the 45th president of the United States set in motion a hidden war in the world of the occult. From the meme-filled underworld of alt-right-dominated imageboards to a widely publicized “binding spell” against Trump and his supporters, the social and ideological divides...

... as a form of human cultural expression, and demonstrate how magic coexists with rationality in contemporary western settings. KEYWORDS: religion, magic, esotericism, occult, politics, magic war, alt- right, millenarianism, fascism O neof the most surprising cultural phenomena to emerge fromthe election...