The planned seminar, co-organized by the Department of Cultural and Science Studies and the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, aims to delve into many important aspects that contribute to the current perception of America’s “strangeness” and division by looking at cultural developments especially since the 1980s, i.e. America’s conservative turn under Ronald Reagan. It will be tracing how Reagan’s re-envisioning of American Exceptionalism has deepened a cultural divide between “Republican” and “Democratic” America – and how the evolving legacy of this pathed the ground for the Magaverse (i.e. the cult[ural] sphere shaped by Trump’s propagandistic promise to “Make America Great Again”) and the rise of the QAanon cult. To better understand contemporary white American culture, a short introduction to conceptualizations of this exceptionalism since the 1700s will be given – alongside with mythology centering on the Endtimes from the Puritans up to contemporary evangelicals.