Tag Archives: GOP

Some in GOP Love Child Labor

By Robin Bates | Published: March 21, 2023

Some in the GOP want to bring back child labor. Kingsolver, Dickens and Browning weigh in on the subject.

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Nikki Haley, Straight Out of 1984

By Robin Bates | Published: February 15, 2023

Nikki Haley, who has just announced her presidential ambitions, resembles Tom Parsons in “1984”–which is to say, a soulless apparatchik.

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Election 2022: Win or Lose, Beowulf

By Robin Bates | Published: November 10, 2022

Two passages from “Beowulf” to capture feelings of despondency and elation, depending on how the election went for you.

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GOP Red Wave Doesn’t Materialize

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2022

Longfellow’s “The Brook and the Ocean” capture some of the dynamics of the 2022 mid-term election.

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Trump Sycophants = Winged Monkeys?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 15, 2022

Mary Trump is likening Trump sycophants to Baum’s Winged Monkeys: They’ll support Trump until, suddenly, they won’t.

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Donald Trump Is Our Harold Skimpole

By Robin Bates | Published: July 24, 2022

Dickens’s Skimpole reminds one of Trump in the way he leeches off other people and always avoid’s responsibility.

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GOP Operatives as Dorian Gray

By Robin Bates | Published: July 11, 2022

Cynicism marks many of those who have sold their souls to Trump, making “Dorian Gray” a good lens through which to view them.

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Stopping Trump’s Loose Cannon

By Robin Bates | Published: June 23, 2022

Some of the officials who bravely stood up to Trump after his electoral defeat enabled him earlier. They are like the gunner with the loose cannon in Hugo’s “93.”

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The Trump Who Had No Clothes

By Robin Bates | Published: June 19, 2022

Andersen’s “Emperor’s New Clothes” perfectly captures today’s GOP.

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