Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces captures the truly epic core of Trump’s transformational campaign. Campbell presented a stunning and comprehensive analysis of the archetypical hero, who has graced religion, mythology, and philosophy and psychology through time.  In The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell defines the process the hero undergoes to achieve transformational and great accomplishments on behalf of the tribe, group, or country. According to Campbell, each hero’s journey goes through formulaic stages. We first see the hero in his normal world.  Here, Trump is the successful businessman, the larger than life celebrity.  Yet at the edges we see him pulled in another direction – the direction of calling out the failures of our political system and the unintended consequences failed political decisions have wrought.  At times excoriated for his brief encounters with political confrontation, he...(Read Full Post)