Tag Archives: GOP

Trump Tilts with Reality

By Robin Bates | Published: June 25, 2020

Trump is like Don Quixote in that both deny reality. Quixote has much more benevolent motives, however.

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Is GOP a Death Cult? Ask Tolstoy

By Robin Bates | Published: June 24, 2020

Has the GOP become a death cult. Tolstoy’s description of suicidal behavior from Napoleon’s soldiers suggests yes.

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Trump as Low-Rent Lear

By Robin Bates | Published: June 10, 2020

I agree with George Will that Trump is like the narcissistic King Lear and his GOP enablers like T.S. Eliot’s Hollow Men

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Atwood Gets the Authoritarian Mindset

By Robin Bates | Published: May 25, 2020

In her sequel to “Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood demonstrates a deep understanding of authoritarianism.

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Making Charn Great Again

By Robin Bates | Published: May 17, 2020

How does one capture Trump’s disastrous handling of Covid? I invoke Jadis in “The Magician’s Nephew” destroying Charn.

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Ride with an Outlaw, Die with Him

By Robin Bates | Published: May 13, 2020

In “Lonesome Dove,” the feckless Jake Spoon falls in with some outlaws and gets punished for the association. A GOP-Trump comparison?

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GOP Oath Breakers Inhabit Twilight World

By Robin Bates | Published: February 12, 2020

Only Romney honored his Senate oath in Trump’s trial, inviting comparisons with Thomas More & John Proctor. The other senator? Tolkien’s Dead Men of Dunharrow.

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Support Trump or Your Head on a Pike

By Robin Bates | Published: February 6, 2020

To avoid having their heads hoisted on pikes, once moderate Republicans voted to acquit Trump. The pike reference comes from Shakespeare.

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How Trump Is Like and Unlike Claudius

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2020

Unlike Claudius in “Hamlet,” who at least thinks he is accountable to God, Trump doesn’t think he should be accountable to anyone.

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