Stephen King has spent decades showing us the darkness lurking behind small-town charm, the monsters that take human form, and the unspeakable evils that thrive in the shadows.
But when King sees something horrific in real life, he calls it out with the precision of a scalpel. This week, Laura Loomer was on the receiving end of King’s razor-sharp critique. The author of The Shining and It took to Twitter to address a far more insidious real-world horror: the rise of inflammatory political rhetoric. King didn’t mince words. “Anyone who speaks of ‘assassination culture’ (I’m looking at you, Laura Loomer) is a dog-whistling member of the rightwing conspiracy mongers,” he tweeted.
