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
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
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
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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The GOP, through the Looking Glass
Cartoonist Tom Toles has a very smart Alice-through-the-Looking-Glass take on Trump and the GOP.
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Are Dems Hampered by “Moral Claptrap”?
Wilkie Collins’s villainous Count Fosco will do whatever it takes to win–which puts him in the company of Trump and McConnell’s GOP.
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Dante on Income Inequality
Dante puts those who exacerbate income inequality in his fourth circle of hell.
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Taming Americans through Gaslighting
Increasingly we are being gaslighted by Donald Trump and his GOP followers. Carl Rosin identifies “Taming of the Shrew” as one of the great plays about gaslighting.
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GOP Epitaph: “He Loved Big Brother”
Why has the GOP become Trump’s party? Because they have learned to love Big Brother.