Tag Archives: Donald Trump

Trumps Wants to “Kill All the Lawyers”

Trump wants, at least metaphorically, to “kill all the lawyers.” The line is delivered by an insurrectionist and bad man in “Henry VI, Part II.”

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On the Leopards Eating Faces Party

Some liberals are finding solace in remorseful Trumpists wondering how the “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party” could have turned on THEM. Kipling’s story about the leopard’s spots is worth revisiting here.

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Trump Christians and Child Abuse

Another MAGA pastor has been indicted for sexual abuse. Goldsmith’s comic poem “Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog” puts the sanctimonious in their place.

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Percy Shelley’s Cry for Freedom

“England in 1819,” written to protest George III and the Peterloo Massacre, sounds all too relevant today.

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Trump as Putin’s Luca Brasi

The GOP’s switch from anti- to pro-Russia is like switching from Eurasia to Eastasia in “1984.” But rather than resembling mob boss Don Corleone in the scenario, Trump is more like Putin’s Luca Brasi.

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Trump vs. Zelensky, Harpy vs. Eagle

Trump and Vance attacking Zelensky is like the harpies of the shore plucking the eagle of the sea in Holmes’s “Old Ironsides.”

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Singing the Song of Angry Men

Suddenly Victor Hugo’s revolutionary energies apply to the United States after years of our being complacent about our democracy.

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Revere Rides to Awaken Us

“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Longfellow suddenly seems relevant as Trump pushed toward autocracy or monarchy.

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Which Tolkien Character Is Elon Musk?

Musk loved Tolkien when young but resembles the villains more than the heroes–namely Gollum, Saruman, and ultimately Wormtongue.

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