American Horror Story: Cult takes drunken aim at the ‘politics of fear’

“We love fear more than we love our children,” perennial weird boy (and

problematic on-screen crush) Evan Peters insists in the first episode of American Horror Story’s seventh installment. As always, his eyes are bulging out of his head. For this year’s aesthetic, as a mysterious “4chan guy” named Kai Anderson, he’s sporting electric blue hair tied up in a top knot and screaming about his own ascension amid Trump-enabled chaos. His sermon about the power and grandeur of fear doesn’t find a receptive audience in his Michigan suburb’s city council meeting, largely because he’s arguing against added security measures at a Jewish community center in the wake of the 2016 election. He’s fully crazy, and concludes his speech muttering, “There is nothing more dangerous in the world than a humiliated man.” That’s the bulk of the stage-setting for American Horror Story: Cult, which stars Peters as a creepy, underestimated, self-proclaimed genius who feeds on information about the phobias of others. He’s not so much infatuated with Trump as with the “they were afraid” excuse so often used to forgive the decision of Trump voters. Afraid of what? In Kai’s mind, it doesn’t actually matter. Everyone’s afraid of something. He’s going to drive this ‘burb to the brink of madness.                                                                                         https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/6/16254846/american-horror-story-cult-review-fx-election