Tag: The Second Coming

• America’s “Second Coming” Will Begin The Instant Donald Trump Is Gone

  

  William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” rings in my ears every day. He was describing the chaotic aftermath of WWI as it rippled through Europe. He also was thinking about the Spanish Flu epidemic that nearly killed his pregnant wife. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall…

  A L Katz

  August 28, 2020

  Election 2016, Mitch McConnell, Political Commentary, Trump

  Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, Mary Trump, Mike Pence, Paul Manafort, Republican corruption, The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats

• Damn Right There’s A “Rough Beast Slouching Towards Bethlehem To Be Born” — It’s Republicanism & Permanent Minority Rule!

  Just like Trump’s election caused people to seek therapy in droves (that’s a fact — it really, really did!), it caused people trying to articulate what this experience is like to pick up William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming”. Bits and pieces of the poem are now part of the vernacular — Things fall apart;…

  A L Katz

  February 25, 2020

  American News Media, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Mitch McConnell, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Trump

  Coup D’Etat, Democratic Socialism, Permanent Minority Rule, Republican corruption, Slouching Toward Bethlehem To Be Born, Socialism, The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats, World War I