He is not an orphan, and did not emerge out of nowhere. Now he needs to be held accountable for his attempted coup - and not just in the court of public opinion.īut who created this American monster? Donald Trump was not built by a deranged scientist in a secret lab. In his dystopian Inaugural speech, Trump promised to end 'American carnage.' Instead, he delivered it.

6 committee's first prime-time hearing, she writes, played out as 'a horror story with predatory Proud Boys and a monster at its center that even Mary Shelley could have appreciated': It was just another way for the Emperor of Chaos to burnish his title.' The House Jan. Our monster's malignity stems from pure narcissistic psychopathy - and he refuses to leave the stage or cease his vile mendacity.ĭowd surmises that it never occurred to Donald Trump that a president openly plotting a seditious coup 'would be a debilitating, corrosive thing for the country. He knows how to feel guilty and when to leave the stage.

Shelley's monster, unlike ours, has self-awareness, and a reason to wreak havoc. 'I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend.'īefore he disappears into the Arctic at the end of the book, he muses that once he had 'high thoughts of honour,' until his 'frightful catalogue' of malignant deeds piled up. 'Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded,' he laments. Embittered, he seeks revenge on his creator and the world.

The creature finds no one who does not recoil in fear and disgust from his stitched-together appearance, his yellow skin and eyes, and black lips.

In a recent New York Times column, Maureen Dowd describes Donald Trump as an 'American monster.' This is an entirely reasonable view, but American society is mired in such a state of malignant normality that this monster has tens of millions of followers, who worship his greed, criminality and cruelty.ĭowd contrasts Trump to the monster in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' who begins with 'elegance of mind and sweetness of temperament, reading Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' and gathering firewood for a poor family.' But then his creator, Victor Frankenstein, abandons and rejects him, refusing to make him a mate:

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