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Donald Trump and Waiting for Justice

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2023

For years we have been awaiting for our own Godot, which is to say, justice for Trump. Perhaps Godot has finally shown up.

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Donald Trump Is Our Harold Skimpole

By Robin Bates | Published: July 24, 2022

Dickens’s Skimpole reminds one of Trump in the way he leeches off other people and always avoid’s responsibility.

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A Rose for Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: February 7, 2020

To express his horror at Trump’s State of the Union performance, a commentator turned to Faulkner’s Southern Gothic story “Rose for Emily.”

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Strange Love: How the GOP Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2019

Are you a Republican worried about Donald Trump? Just embrace him without reservation and your worries are over.

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Putin’s Seduction of Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: July 19, 2018

Think of Putin as Satan, Trump as Eve, and Adam as the GOP in a reenactment of Paradise Lost.

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Donald Trump as Saruman

By Robin Bates | Published: July 5, 2018

Like Saruman, Trump isn’t interested in traditional alliances but wants to link up directly with Sauron (a.k.a. Vladimir Putin).

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If Swift Had Known Donald Trump…

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2016

Jonathan Swift would have had a field day with Donald Trump. I suspect I’ll say this often in the upcoming years.

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Donald Trump as Citizen Kane

By Robin Bates | Published: July 25, 2016

Donald Trump’s favorite film is “Citizen Kane.” Is he drawing on Kane’s campaign for governor in his demonization of Hillary Clinton?

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How To Pin Down Protean Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: May 15, 2016

Trying to pin down Donald Trump is like trying to pin down Proteus. But maybe that means that reporters can use the same tactics that Menelaus does to capture the sea god.

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