Is Trump Really Alex from "A Clockwork Orange?"

[MineralMan]

I wonder. Anyone have an opinion about that? It has been years since I read it, but...the times then and now have many things in common.

[C_U_L8R]

1. He's more like Dim.

Or maybe Mr Deltoid.

[meadowlander]

2. In the book, Alex grows out of it.

Burgess was trying to make a point about society pathologises and tries to cure what is usually just a destructive phase for young men who don't have anything better to do because they live in a soulless emotionless environment. Left alone, he finds his own direction and loses the desire to break things and attack others.

At 79, I think we have to just accept that Donald Trump is an asshole and always will be.

[rampartd]

3. little billy mumy from the twilight zone

[cachukis]

4. Think the title has significance.

Wasn't the story about free will?
They tried some type of inversion therapy or something, but his inner core remained.
Regardless, he, our clockwork orange, is the center, the eye, if you will, of a dangerous wind testing our roots.
Don't think he, nor his followers, are redeemable.
Those living in this storm can work to ameliorate, but it will take another generation to have cleared the debris to understand what to put up as safeguards.

[LymphocyteLover]

5. No, because Alex got off on committing violence himself whereas Trump is a coward and has other people commit violent

acts for him.

Maybe the raping behavior is analogous though.