The ‘Sound And Fury’ Of Trump’s Impeachment Trial Signifies Something Sinister For America
Trump isn’t really on trial here, everyone who voted for him is.
By John Daniel Davidson
February 12, 2021
Twitter had some fun Wednesday night when NBC’s Andrea Mitchell tried — and miserably failed — to correct Sen. Ted Cruz on the source of the famous Shakespeare quote from Macbeth, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.†The Texas senator had used it to describe the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump now underway in the Senate.
Mitchell, who studied English literature at the University of Pennsylvania, thought the quote came from William Faulkner. “@SenTedCruzsays #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner,†Mitchell tweeted, apparently unaware that Faulkner borrowed the phrase from the Bard.
Andrea Mitchell
@mitchellreports
.@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner
5:46 PM · Feb 10, 2021
Mitchell’s literary ignorance unleashed a mini-tempest on Twitter, including Cruz chiming in with the full quote from Macbeth. To her credit, Mitchell apologized to Cruz — but not without humble-bragging that she “clearly studied too much American literature and not enough Macbeth.†Yes, clearly.
Amusing as this little spectacle of elite ignorance was, it calls to mind something sinister about the Trump impeachment trial, which is indeed “full of sound and fury,†but doesn’t signify nothing. It signifies that Democrats, by putting a former president on trial for something he did not do, are trying to destroy not only Trump but the entire Republican Party, and tar everyone who voted for Trump as a traitor. The former president is not really on trial here, the movement he represents is.
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