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The Unbearable Lightness of Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: May 5, 2016

Czech author Milan Kundera warned about how dictatorships thrive off of our forgetting. In a “Rolling Stone” article, Charlie Pierce argues that forgetting has led to the rise of Donald Trump.

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Reading Poems to Protest Donald Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: November 29, 2015

A student attending a Donald Trump rally staged a silent protest by reading the poetry of Claudia Rankine. The collection of poems could not have been better chosen.

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Donald Trump as Willie Stark

By Robin Bates | Published: September 8, 2015

Donald Trump calling out the GOP establishment is like Willie Stark calling out the Democratic establishment in “All the King’s Men.”

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Donald J. Trump, Will You Please Go Now!

By Robin Bates | Published: November 10, 2020

Dr. Seuss’s “Marvin K. Mooney” is a satisfying read as Trump attempts to hold on to office.

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Trump, His Billionaires, and Ayn Rand

By Robin Bates | Published: October 24, 2024

Ayn Rand’s novels help explain why certain billionaires are gravitating to Donald Trump. Trump’s own enthusiasm about “The Fountainhead” is also revealing.

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Heine’s Weavers vs. Trump’s Weave

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2024

Trumps explains his growing incoherence as a rhetorical “weave.” German poet Heine provides a response in “The Weavers.”

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Trump as Washed-Up Salesman?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 29, 2024

Is Trump beginning to come across as a washed-up salesman like Loman in “Death of a Salesman” or Levene in “Glengarry Glen Ross”?

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6 Impossible Trump Lies before Breakfast

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2024

Lewis Carroll’s White Queen challenges Alice to believe 6 impossible things before breakfast. Six is a bare minimum for Trump supporters.

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Silko and Trump on Weaving

By Robin Bates | Published: September 4, 2024

In response to Trump’s defense that his rambling is verbal weaving, I look at applicable weaving imagery in Silko’s novel “Ceremony.”

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