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Peter Gerler has written about jazz since the early 1990s. He has been published in American Legacy, DownBeat, JazzTimes, Humanities, Syncopated Times, The Boston Globe, New Orleans Gambit, Moultrie Observer, WBGO Upbeat, www.jazz.com, www.nejazz.com, and other venues. He has presented on early jazz at Satchmo Summerfest, River Road African American Museum, Classic Jazz at Lincoln Library, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Newton Lifetime Learning, and numerous senior facilities in the Boston area. Peter lived in New Orleans from 1990-1995 and is working on a book about the jazz legend Joe "King" Oliver (Louis Armstrong?s New Orleans mentor). In his previous life, Peter earned his living writing advertising copy, corporate communications, and trade journals. As an organizational trainer, he taught writing in both the public and private sectors. He is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association and the National Writers Union. Outside his normal beat, he covers the current political scene, which challenges free expression and threatens all artistic communities.

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Trump: "Chosen One" or Con Man Cult members don't know they're in a cult. As former member Mark Vicente said of the NXIUM group, "Nobody joins a cult! They join a good thing -- and then they realize they were fucked." Having spent years in a cult myself, I know whereof Vicente speaks. What drives Maga is what drove the Manson girls and the Jonestown victims: they have been turned. Under Trump's spell, they surrender personal agency and will do what Trump a

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