Comic Artiste Ben Garrison Wasn't Talking About *That* Don Quixote, You Guys

[Nevilledog]

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On Thursday, rightwing artiste Ben Garrison proudly released his latest cartoon — featuring a brave and triumphant Donald Trump as Don Quixote chasing a frightened windmill of social media sites. While he had hoped it would inspire the masses to get behind Trump and his ridiculous class action lawsuit against these companies he claims "censored" him and other conservatives, it instead inspired them to point out that he had completely misunderstood the point of Don Quixote.

The point as you likely know, whether you have read the book or not, was that Don Quixote was heroically fighting windmills he thought were dragons — which, because they were windmills and not dragons, were therefore no actual danger to him or anybody. (Little did Miguel de Cervantes know about the windmill cancer.) This somewhat undermined the point that Garrison was trying to make.

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Because Garrison has more than a bit in common with the man of La Mancha, he did not back down. Rather, he followed that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far ... and stood by his cartoon. He explained that in his artistic interpretation, "the windmill enemy is not imagined — it is real" and it is running away from big, tough, not-at-all delusional Donald Trump.

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[Initech]

1. I think this is a far more accurate comparison, IMO.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Beauty!!! (nt)

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2. "In the village of Merde A Lago, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind . . .

. . . there lived not long since one of those "gentlemen" who keep a 9-iron in the golf bag, an old cell phone, a lean hack political advisor with an amazing resemblance to Reinhard Heydrich, and a porn star for blowjobs."

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3. Garrison is a pure-D nitwit to begin with

but this is a new high/low for him.

[hatrack]

6. He's the Jon McNaughton of Glenn McCoys . . .

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7. Jon McNaughton

but yeah

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9. Fixed - thank you!

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[lagomorph777]

10. What does "Pure-D nitwit" mean?

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15. Puredee or Pure-D

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puredee

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. So Trump's "enemy" is a fantastical running windmill, that Trump imagines is a

fantastical dragon. And the windmill flies a Chinese flag, because this fantasy wouldn't be complete without xenophobia.

[andym]

5. Unintentional self-parody, perhaps the most entertaining humor of all. He's Trump's Sancho Panza

Making the point that Trump is as delusional as Don Quixote and therefore by implication that Trump's followers are delusional, including himself. I guess he is but one of Trump's Sancho Panzas.

[lagomorph777]

8. I would have assumed he was an anti-Trumper if I hadn't read the article!

The cartoon is a pretty good satirical depiction of Trump. I had no idea it was meant to be flattering.

[Tommy Carcetti]

11. Ben Garrison cartoons without the captions are the only way to enjoy Ben Garrison.

[SCantiGOP]

13. The phrase "tilting at windmills"

is fairly common and well-understood. It means a delusional attack on an imaginary enemy.
That cartoonist just needs to acknowledge that he is a moron and has made a fool of himself.

[ms liberty]

14. How has he made money as a cartoonist when he's that dense?

Inquiring minds want to know.