We @religiondispatches.org sincerely doubt that Trump has read, much less understood, any Shakespeare. But nominally refusing the crown to elicit more public support for authoritarian rule is definitely giving Julius Caesar.
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Trump doesn’t even know who Shakespeare or Julius Caesar is.
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“A lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator’” feels a test balloon—or maybe just Trump’s way of telling America she’s asking for it. We eagerly await Fox’s forthcoming segment on why it would be good for America to have a dictator, actually.
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