In “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Baldwin captures cop sadism of the sort we also seen in Trump supporters.
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Baldwin, Cop Sadism, and MAGA
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On Trump, Achilles, and Retribution
Trump has been threatening retribution on his enemies. The Iliad shows the corrosive effects of revenge.
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Faulkner’s Sanctuary, Trump’s Charges
Reading Sanctuary while awaiting a Trump indictment is a good counterweight to facile optimism. In Faulkner’s world, the courts can’t save us.
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Paris, Trump, and Accountability
The way Priam enables Paris is similar to how the GOP enables Trump. Utter disaster awaits.
Fine Distinctions in Trumpian Grift
Tuesday While the House committee investigating Donald Trump’s January 6 coup attempt has focused its sights on the ex-president, its report has also looked at minor actors, both those who stuck with the president and those who have peeled off. One of my favorite posts over the past two years has been one applying A.E. […]
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How Media Would Spin Macbeth
In an effort to be fair to both sides, sometimes the media doesn’t call out falsehoods. Satirist Petri imagines a newspaper telling the story of the Macbeths.
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Trumpists Resemble Dracula’s Renfield
A “New York Magazine” columnist has compared Trumpists and Trump enablers to Renfield in “Dracula.” The comparison is an apt one.
Trump’s Satanic Power Grab
Monday One of the paradoxes of today’s GOP is that, at the same time they complain that Democrats represent a threat to their freedom, they want to hand over all power to their authoritarian cult leader. Donald Trump, it so happens, is not interested in anyone’s freedom but his own. This is one of the […]
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Trump Sycophants = Winged Monkeys?
Mary Trump is likening Trump sycophants to Baum’s Winged Monkeys: They’ll support Trump until, suddenly, they won’t.
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