Can one see one’s savior as a monster? The issue shows up in Hugo’s “Les Misérables” and among Republicans who demonize Biden.
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Can Trumpists See the Real Biden?
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Trump Love: I Lie with Him and He with Me
Shakespeare Sonnets 138 and 147 describe Trump Love only too well.
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The GOP in Trump’s Coils
Trump is like the witch in Lewis’s “Silver Chair,” casting a spell on the GOP that gets them to believe an alternative reality.
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Pelosi, Mueller vs. Grendel Trump
Monday John Stoehr, who edits The Editorial Board, had a provocative column recently that is worth contemplating on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Stoehr argues that sadism is the animating principle of the Republican Party, with Donald Trump being its purest expression. Whether this is in fact true of most Republicans, Trump himself is certainly […]
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