Dowd: Double, Double, Trump's Toil, Our Trouble

[gulliver]

WASHINGTON — Macbeth has his doubts.

But his wife taunts him about his manliness until he bloodies his country.

It’s hard to believe, four centuries after Shakespeare, that the fear of being unmanned is still so potent that it could wreck a country.

But it is. And it has.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/opinion/sunday/trump-coronavirus-herman-cain.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Spot on take on Trump by MoDo. Check out the picture of Trump if nothing else.

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

Donald Trump’s warped view of masculinity has warped this nation’s response to a deadly pandemic. And Trump doesn’t even have a diabolical Lady MacTrump whispering in his ear, goading him about being a man. He goads himself, fueled by ghostly memories of his autocratic father.

As the Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt writes: “The tyrant, Macbeth and other plays suggest, is driven by a range of sexual anxieties: a compulsive need to prove his manhood, dread of impotence, a nagging apprehension that he will not be found sufficiently attractive or powerful, a fear of failure. Hence the penchant for bullying, the vicious misogyny, and the explosive violence. Hence, too, the vulnerability to taunts. Especially those bearing a latent or explicit sexual charge.”

Trump’s fear of emasculation led to his de-mask-ulation. Instead of cleaving to science and reason, he stuck with the old, corny Gordon Gekko routine, putting concern for the stock market above all else.

Like Macbeth, the president made tragic errors of judgment and plunged his country into a nightmare. Our trust in government is depleted, and our relationships in the world are tattered. As Fintan O’Toole wrote in The Irish Times, the world has loved, hated and envied the United States. But never before has it pitied us. Until now.

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2. Gosh MoDo

If only someone had warned us. You know, by saying like it's not wise to elect an insecure, petty little man who can be baited with a tweet. That surely would have tipped you and the rest of the media savants into taking a serious look at the 2016 presidential race and opted for substance over cheap theatrics, right?

[dalton99a]

3. +1. Her jihad against Hillary was more important

[jrthin]

5. She can ask herself your question daily, was her jihad against Hillary worth

what she had a hand in birthing. Appreciate what she has to say about this monster but I will always loathe her.

[IADEMO2004]

6. Her and soooooo many others. Elect a jackass and really show the government.

[LizBeth]

4. Not only give me liberty and death. But give others death too. Grijalva Gohmert who brags not

wearing the mask gave it to him. They don't just kill themselves, they kill others.