"Trump is a doddering foolish mad king like King Lear -- so we shouldn't impeach him!" is one hell of a hot take.https://www.wsj.com/articles/would-shakespeare-impeach-trump-11569621402 …
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Equally true of Team Hillary.
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Yes, America is becoming increasing monarchal.
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For well we know, no hand of blood and bone Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre, Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.
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(But even Elizabethans saw it was more complicated than that - Richard II is mostly viewed throughout the play as in the wrong)
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What people don’t realize is that it’s Tiffany who is the Cordelia character.
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I don’t believe in the “secret resistance” that hot take might be evidence
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Lear as prophesy: if Dems really want to bring Trump down, they should start looking for his illegitimate sons.
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Don't read to much into this. This is the sort of transparent cultural name-dropping that patrician philistines like Buckley patented two generations ago.
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Divine right of Republicans. They’ve been pushing that line with help from the pulpit for years.
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Trump wouldn't be the 1st president to be likened to King Lear in the popular media. Here's Time Magazine's cover from Jan. 1968 depicting LBJ as Lear during the Vietnam War.pic.twitter.com/SZHG32LIL8
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