Tag Archives: MAGA

Revisiting “It Can’t Happen Here”

By Robin Bates | Published: February 27, 2024

Mother Jones columnist David Corn finds increasing relevance in Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here.”

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Candide and the Deep State

By Robin Bates | Published: February 6, 2024

Members of the MAGA cult resemble the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh in “Candide.”

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Pratchett’s Response to Intolerance

By Robin Bates | Published: January 8, 2024

Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching novel “I Shall Wear Midnight” is a good counter to Christofascism.

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Biden and Auden’s Unknown Citizen

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2023

Auden’s “Unknown Citizen” looks better now than when the poet wrote the poem.

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Our Country, a Land of Poverty

By Robin Bates | Published: November 25, 2023

Blake calls out those who claim to be Christians while mistreating the poor.

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Joe Biden as King Hrothgar

By Robin Bates | Published: November 5, 2023

Biden’s low poll numbers may be because, like King Hrothgar in “Beowulf,” he can’t prevent violence from breaking out in the great hall.

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MAGA “Justice” and the Queen of Hearts

By Robin Bates | Published: September 7, 2023

“Sentence first, verdict afterwards,” say both MAGA Republicans and Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts.

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MAGA & Regeneration thru Violence

By Robin Bates | Published: August 21, 2023

MAGA’s increasingly violent rhetoric fits a long American tradition of regeneration through violence.

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Melville Would Have Understood Trump

By Robin Bates | Published: July 31, 2023

Melville foresaw Trump in “Confidence Man.”

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