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Tag Archives: Donald Trump
Conquering the Darkness Within
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Gandalf and Saruman, Biden and Trump
The both-siderism that equates Trump with Biden would probably equate Saruman with Gandalf.
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Trump’s Love Test Resembles Lear’s
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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Taylor Swift as Snow White
Trump’s jealousy of Taylor Swift resembles that of the evil queen in “Snow White.” Anne Sexton’s own Snow White poem explains how jealousy works.
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Trump as Captain Queeg
Donald Trump as Captain Queeg and the captain in Eggers’s novel “Captain and the Glory.”
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You, Governor Haley, Are No Beowulf
Trump may be a Grendel but unfortunately Nikki Haley is no Beowulf.
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Will AI Be Used To Suppress Votes?
In 1973, an Angela Carter predicted the power of unreality to take over our lives. In 2024, AI may be proving her right.
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The Dream of Acting with Impunity
In thinking he can act with total impunity, Trump echoes H.G. Wells’s Invisible Man.
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Truth in ’24, a Pearl of Great Price
Biden called for truth telling in a recent speech, reminding me of Cowper’s “The Task.”