The novel series airs as two outsider insurgents – Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders appeal to voters who believe ‘the truth is out there’,rather than in Washington DCCall me a conspiracy theorist, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that The X-Files revival has near when there’s the same climate in global politics – extreme scepticism – as when it first aired.
The original series, and which ran between 1993 and 2002,was conceived in 1992 – the US election year in which the TV presenter Pat Buchanan came an unnervingly close second to George HW Bush in the novel Hampshire primary, and the wacky billionaire Ross Perot horrified the Republican party by running as an independent – and winning 18.9% of the vote in the most successful presidential tender of modern times by a non-politician. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com