Jonathan Swift would have something to say about how the corporate media continues to sane-wash Donald Trump.
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Swift on Media Sane-Washing
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Sane-Washing Vance and Mac the Knife
As I watched Vance sane-wash both Trump and himself in the debate, I thought of the sane-washing that occurs in Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged anti-democratic theocracy, Beggar's Opera, Bill Kristol, Election 2024, J.D. Vance, John Gay, Kevin Roberts, Lance Wallnau, Leonard Leo, Matthew Taylor, New Apostolic Reformation, Opus Dei, Project 2025, Seven Mountains Mandate Comments closed
Trump as Washed-Up Salesman?
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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Kamala Harris Can Be Our Jane Eyre
America’s relationship with Trump has been toxic. Jane Eyre shows us how to exit such relationships and Kamala Harris follows suit.
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6 Impossible Trump Lies before Breakfast
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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Laughter in the Presidential Campaign
Trump and Vance’s jokes are designed to beat down, not include. They elicit Hobbesian laughter, not Shaftesburian.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged blood libel, Caite Upton, Comedy, Henry Fielding, Kamala Harris, Laughter, Leviathan, Mel Brooks, mysogeny, Tom Jones Comments closed
Harris’s Use of Goneril Tactics
In Tuesday’s presidential debate, Harris played Goneril and Regan to Trump’s King Lear. With differences, of course.
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9-11 and Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
In which I examine why Americans turned to Auden’s “September 1, 1939” on September 11, 2001–and how the poem still offers us solace and hope in the face of Trumpism.
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Silko and Trump on Weaving
In response to Trump’s defense that his rambling is verbal weaving, I look at applicable weaving imagery in Silko’s novel “Ceremony.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ceremony, dementia, Election 2024, joy, Kamala Harris, Leslie Marmon Silko, PTSD, stream-of-consciousness Comments closed
