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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Nikki Haley, Straight Out of 1984
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Election 2022: Win or Lose, Beowulf
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
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?
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
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
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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The Trump Who Had No Clothes
Andersen’s “Emperor’s New Clothes” perfectly captures today’s GOP.
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Liz Cheney as a Miltonic Good Angel
Liz Cheney on the committee investigating January 6 and Donald Trump is like Milton’s Abdiel standing up to Satan.
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