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TRUMP, TRUTH, AND ALL THE KING'S MEN

TRUMP, TRUTH, AND ALL THE KING'S MEN

Like the rising demogogue at the heart of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All The King's Men, Trump understands that he is liberated from the burden of fact just so long as he continues to depict a reality that renders as True. 

HOW A STEINBECK NOVEL FORETOLD TRUMP'S AMERICA

HOW A STEINBECK NOVEL FORETOLD TRUMP'S AMERICA

The Winter of Our Discontent is marked by the same sort of nationalism that has been given pride of place on the electoral stage. At the close of the first black president’s tenure, there has been a heightening of hate. The staggering reinvigoration of white supremacy--let’s call it like it is--is a response what some commentators have observed as a pushback against President Obama as a symbol for racial advancement. The racist underpinnings of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign are, for some, a way to set back the “rightful” order of this country -- you know, to “make America great again.”