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An almost Shakespearean situation

I just serve to repost Economist articles perhaps. Here’s one about the recent amazing cabinet meeting, comparisons to King Leer, and how this really is so pathetic compared to Shakespearean tragedy. Nice quote at the end:

The fact that Mr Trump is a smaller, shallower figure than most Shakespearean heroes (or villains, come to that) makes the craven behaviour of his cabinet secretaries and other Republican enablers even harder to explain. Unlike courtiers in a Jacobean tragedy, they risk neither execution nor banishment. No invading army or witches’ curse impels so many members of Team Trump to sell their reputations and dignity cheap: merely ambition, and the comforting fiction that they are indispensable. Serving Mr Trump is a modest test of character, by Shakespearean standards. It is one which too many underlings are failing.

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