I hope this isn’t the case, but the timing of the movies is really good to get people into Dune. They’ll need the books to fully understand the parallels though.

Hopefully Trump doesn’t do the things we suspect he’ll do based on what he’s said, but, if he does, hopefully it’s a moment humanity can learn from (again). Hopefully we come out of this and people stop trusting charismatic leaders. Dune may be more relevant than ever.