The WSJ Trump as King Lear thing does offer interesting insight into how the right sees the presidency: Republican presidents are legitimate monarchs who can do no wrong and must never be challenged. (Dem presidents are, implicitly, usurpers).
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It's true that he hath every but slenderly known himself.
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WSJ is the definition of ideology created to justify exploitative material relations
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Better question: will the 2019 Senate of the United States impeach him?
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Isn’t there some other Shakespeare play about a Senate dealing with a would be tyrant? I forget how it goes, but seems to me they address the problem effectively in that one . . .
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It's bizarre to think that a staunch 16th century nationalist monarchist would have any notion of impeachment
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The first recorded impeachment had been Latimer in 1376. Given his interest in history he would have been aware of the power to impeach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_Kingdom …
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Romeo and Juliet are also role models for your first teenage relationship
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Apprehensive about his thoughts on Othello
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