Tag Archives: GOP

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.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Donald Trump, January 6 Investigation Committee, Ninety-Three, Rusty Bowers, Victor Hugo, William Barr | Comments closed

The Trump Who Had No Clothes

By Robin Bates | Published: June 19, 2022

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

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "This Is Just to Say", Donald Trump, Emperor's New Clothes, Hans Christian Andersen, January 6 Investigation Committee, William Carolos Williams | Comments closed

Liz Cheney as a Miltonic Good Angel

By Robin Bates | Published: June 12, 2022

Liz Cheney on the committee investigating January 6 and Donald Trump is like Milton’s Abdiel standing up to Satan.

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Handmaid’s Tale Comes a Step Closer

By Robin Bates | Published: May 3, 2022

We’re a step closer to “The Handmaid’s Tale.” But can find strength from “A Wrinkle in Time.”

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Abortion, Handmaid's Tale, Madeleine L'Engle, Margaret Atwood, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Wrinkle in Time | Comments closed

Trump’s Havisham-Like Damage

By Robin Bates | Published: December 7, 2021

Is Trump, like Miss Havisham, so embittered by his loss that he’s creating little Estelles, designed to break America’s heart.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Charles Dickens, democracy threatened, Donald Trump, Frank Bruni, Great Expectations, Hillary Clinton, Tempest, Trumpism, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Sin, Death, and a Pro-Covid GOP

By Robin Bates | Published: December 2, 2021

As the GOP becomes a pro-Covid party, they resemble Satan in “Paradise Lost,” unleashing death upon humankind.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-vaxxers, COVID-19, John Milton, Paradise Lost | Comments closed

First They Came for Toni Morrison, Then…

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2021

In the right attacks Toni Morrison novels, does this mean that Homer, Dostoevsky, Milton, and Sophocles are next?

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Beloved, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Homer, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, Toni Morrison | Comments closed