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Toad and Trumpian Politics

By Robin Bates | Published: April 24, 2024

Many of Trump’s primary opponents have behaved like Toad after a motor car runs over his gypsy caravan.

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Vlad’s Black Riders, Trump’s Tell-Tale Heart

By Robin Bates | Published: April 3, 2024

Recent literature citations by opinion writers include “Lord of the Rings,” “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

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Trump as a Sadistic Steinbeck Bully

By Robin Bates | Published: March 11, 2024

As bully, Trump resembles Curley in “Of Mice and Men.” Recently Biden, like Lennie, struck back.

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Trump’s Love Test Resembles Lear’s

By Robin Bates | Published: February 8, 2024

Trump, like Lear, sets up love tests for followers. South Carolina Sen. Scott recently “passed” in the same way that Goneril and Regan pass.

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Trump as Captain Queeg

By Robin Bates | Published: January 29, 2024

Donald Trump as Captain Queeg and the captain in Eggers’s novel “Captain and the Glory.”

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Trump, “Vermin” and Terry Pratchett

By Robin Bates | Published: January 9, 2024

In “Snuff” one of Terry Pratchett’s angriest book, the author takes on racism, ethnocentrism, and intolerance.

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Trump’s Lean and Hungry Plotters

By Robin Bates | Published: November 16, 2023

There is a tide in the affairs of Trump supporters that, taken at the flood, will lead them to do anything to take power. “Julius Caesar” is warning us.

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Swift Understood Trumpian Fascism

By Robin Bates | Published: November 14, 2023

Trump’s use of “vermin” to characterize his enemies is fascist talk. “Gulliver’s Travels” shows where such talk can lead.

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Imagining Trump as Kafka’s K.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2023

Satirist Petri imagines Trump as Kafka’s K–but in this case Trump’s mind, not the court, is Kafkaesque.

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