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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 03:37 PM Mar 2020

Trump is our "rough beast".

I know this has been quoted often, but there is just nothing more appropriate than Yeats:

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

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Trump is our "rough beast". (Original Post) Atticus Mar 2020 OP
I expected more competence htuttle Mar 2020 #1
I've long found that a truly frightening poem bobbieinok Mar 2020 #2
Rough Beast is also the brand name of a low-end toilet paper. Sneederbunk Mar 2020 #3

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)
2. I've long found that a truly frightening poem
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 03:59 PM
Mar 2020

The end 'slouching toward Bethlehem to be born' freaks me out now when I realize the position Evangelicals have given Trump

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