The Shakespearean Grandeur of Trump Derangement Syndrome
A deranged and unconstitutional inquiry is underway.
Where is the Bard when we need him?
Stephen B. Presser
- December 7th, 2019
Trump Derangement Syndrome, now playing out in the impeachment proceedings in the House, would require a Shakespeare adequately to describe and understand the way it is playing out as a motivating factor in our politics. The Bard did give us a hint of what is going on in one of his more obscure yet fabulously entertaining works, The Winter’s Tale. That mysterious late drama is a meditation on irrational jealousy, tyranny, and injustice.
In the climactic scene in Act III of the play, when the innocent Queen Hermione is wrongly found guilty of adultery by her husband, King Leontes, she laments that it is her fate to “be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else.†And yet, the queen understands that what has brought her to this sad pass, as she tells her judge and tyrannical husband, is a result of “what your jealousies awake, I tell you ’Tis rigour, and not law.â€
Just so, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and Nancy Pelosi’s determination to find something, anything, to use as impeachment fodder against President Trump.
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