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Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2017

How Do We Banish the Monster That Is Donald Trump? / Ariel Dorfman

Who created Donald Trump, who breathed so much life into him?

In order to explain the origins of the New York contender’s astonishing run for the Presidency, many politicians and pundits have persistently recurred to Frankenstein, one of the founding myths of modernity, the story of a colossal monster who rises up and rebels against his maker. These observers point to the toxic political climate engendered by the Republicans over the last decades, Trump as the extreme incarnation of an incendiary stoking of fear, racism, and xenophobia, a misbegotten monster come home to roost. ... [mehr] http://lithub.com/how-do-we-banish-the-monster-that-is-donald-trump/

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