I've not read it but heard of it, just looked at the Wikipedia entry, sure sounds like some imagery could fit our Donald....already fits our Clint Eastwood.

Also definitely sounds like the kind of thing Europeans go crazy over, the bizarre "America" of the wide open west that they find intriguing. Ala movies Paris, Texas or Baghdad Cafe or Brokeback Mountain (you could bring in your manly men thing here)....Then there's all things Larry Clarke (bring in your pedophilia thing here)....Then there's the other angle of northern Europeans adoring all things Native American western mythos and ethos (cowboys pretty cool, too) since the 19th century....

Back to 'merca (could bring in Geo. Bush here clearing brush on the ranch to clear his head)--what really amazes me is that a whole bunch of great art somehow fitting the ethos of the wild open lands of western America came out of Black Mountain College in: Asheville, North Carolina! And that emigres from Europe were also attracted there for precisely that.

As a Russian immigrant comic used to say: What a country! ?

You know what it makes me think: Trump could only happen here. As much as some of us would like to make the comparison to tin pot dictators, Nazi populism, etc. etc. etc. This is not that, this is special yet once again. Our imagination and our nightmares, they are different. We have developed a national culture different from all the others, crazy as it may be.