Donald Trump, Macbeth and the ruins of the Republican Party

[marmar]

Donald Trump, Macbeth and the ruins of the Republican Party
Even after testifying to Trump's crimes, leading Republicans might vote for him again. Shakespeare can explain

By PETER C. HERMAN
PUBLISHED JULY 8, 2022 6:00AM


(Salon) Toward the end of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth," Malcolm (the good guy) decides to give his ally, Macduff, a very strange test.

Granted, Macbeth is the very embodiment of a murderous tyrant but, Malcolm says, he's even worse. Compared to himself, Macbeth "will seem pure as snow."

"What are you talking about?" Macduff responds. So Malcolm gives him a few examples.

First, "there's no bottom, none," to his sexual appetite. Your wives, your daughters, your matrons, won't satisfy him. Macduff's response is, to say the least, surprising. That's OK, he says. Even though sexual rapaciousness has justified the "fall of many kings," nonetheless, "We have willing dames enough."

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Shakespeare's scene parallels the responses to three Republican witnesses to Donald J. Trump's perfidy: Bill Barr, Russell "Rusty" Bowers, and Brad Raffensperger.

All three have good reasons for unqualifiedly repudiating Trump. Barr, the former attorney general, has said that Trump's belief that he won the election suggested that the then-president was "detached from reality." Bowers, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, was subjected to numerous calls from Trump pressuring him to replace Arizona's Biden electors with Trump ones, a scheme he described as illegal and unconstitutional. As for Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, Trump asked him to "find 11,780 votes," and when Raffensperger refused, Trump said that standing by the election results was "a big risk to you" and "a criminal offense."

Yet all three of these men have said that they would vote for Trump again if he's the Republican nominee in 2024. Even though Barr says he would prefer someone else, he pledged to vote for Trump if the twice-impeached ex-president winds up on the ballot. Bowers said the same: "If he is the nominee ... I'd vote for him again." Raffensperger was more evasive, refusing to rule out voting for Trump while not explicitly saying that he would. ........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/07/08/donald-trump-macbeth-and-the-ruins-of-the-party/

[dweller]

1. Yes that burner was blazing hot when I laid my hand on it

and the 3rd degree burns scarred when they healed … but if that burner is on again, I’d put my hand on it again …
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Magats are imbeciles and morons



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[ampm]

2. It's all showing up now

Of course, they would, they would vote for anything with an R because they are power-hungry for control over all of us. The Lords of the rings wasn't just a movie there was always truth in them and the hunger games is the same of what to watch out for