When a rodeo clown wore an Obama mask, Democrats and the NAACP wouldn’t stop until he was fired. The Department of Justice’s community organizers were sent in over an Obama outhouse float. But now that a Republican is in the White House, assassination fantasies are fun again.
And once you’re butchering the Bard, why not also butcher the president. Combining Julius Caesar with a Trump critique is perfect. Lefties get the moral superiority of pretending that their Trump hatred is a deep critique of authoritarianism and populism followed by the frisson of a stand in for the man they hate being stabbed to death.
Shakespeare in the Park, an annual summer program by The Public Theater that puts on plays by William Shakespeare in Central Park, kicked off May 23 with a performance of Julius Caesar.