Tag Archives: MAGA

How Tennyson Anticipated Trumpism

By Robin Bates | Published: June 22, 2025

In this poem written when he was 80, Tennyson expresses disgust as we might today about Trumpism.

By Robin Bates | Published: June 16, 2025

In his popular novel “Kafka on the Shore,” Murakami explores the kind of sadism that we are currently witnessing in Trump’s MAGA supporters.

By Robin Bates | Published: May 22, 2025

Murakami’s account of cult behavior in “1Q84” applies only too well to MAGA behavior in current day America.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2025

A Joe Fasano poem calling out “Those Who Call Themselves Christian but Seek to Divide and Conquer the World”

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2025

Trump-supporting CEOs have a plantation mentality, which explains why they tolerate him. Think “Gone with the Wind” entitlement.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2025

Kingsolver’s novel “Unsheltered” shows the role that racism plays in Trump’s support.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 16, 2025

Shapiro’s “Shakespeare in a Divided America” shows that the Bard has made an appearance in most of American history’s key moments.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 30, 2024

Milton’s Paradise Lost, banned by a Florida County this past year, exposes the hypocrites who have taken it off school library shelves.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 16, 2024

With her story “Things,” Le Guin gives us a way of understanding MAGA nihilists–and of seeing alternatives.