Whether Donald Trump Goethe Sorcerer’s apprentice knows? In any case, he won’t get rid of the spirits he called. For years he surfed on the wave of success of populism by uninhibiting conspiracy fantasies over an oh so sinister US elite. At some point that caught at the relevant audience – and the real estate coon was not only voted president once, but even twice. Equipped with the mandate of his rabid electorate to clean up in Washington – but really.