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Trump is Entering the End Phase of a Shakespearean Tragedy
He’s like Macbeth once he realizes he’s going to lose.
At the end of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, the titular king realizes that all his grasping after power has come to naught. Rather than go down as a loser, he exclaims that if he can’t have power, then the whole world can be destroyed for all he cares (“I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun,/ And wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone.”).
The judgment offered up by New York Times opinion columnist Paul Krugman that Trump is killing the economy out of spite suggests that Trump is as bitterly vindictive as Macbeth.
One of Trump’s principal campaign promises was to destroy Obamacare. After a four-year mandate, he has not succeeded in doing that. The people like their affordable healthcare. He has also failed to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it. His government has botched its response to the coronavirus pandemic and caused 200,000 unnecessary American deaths.
Overall, he is a massive failure as a president, and he knows it.
And if he can’t hold onto his power, then nobody gets to. Certainly not Joe Biden and his “monster” running mate Kamala Harris.
