Stephen King knows a thing or two about horror, and he seems pretty alarmed by Donald Trump. The oft-adapted author of “The Shining,” “It” and countless other books you’ve maybe read and definitely seen the movie versions of has written a piece for the Guardian called “How Do Such Men Rise? First as a Joke.” In it, he admits to being “dismayed, but not particularly surprised” on election night — a lack of enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton in the liberal enclave of New England stuck out to him, as did the implications of Brexit.

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To better understand the current occupant of the White House (when he’s actually in the White House, that is), King has convened a panel of six fictional Trump voters. They discuss their reasons for supporting the businessman-turned-politician, whom...