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Syphilis Unbound: On Corey Robin's New Yorker Piece

Whose Fantasy? Whose Reality?

John Ganz
Mar 15, 2021
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I read with great interest Corey Robin’s summation of the Trump phenomenon on the New Yorker website, “Trump and The Trapped Country.”

Robin writes,

We are not witnesses to Prometheus unbound. We are seeing the sufferings of Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock—immigration reform, new infrastructure, green jobs—up a hill. It…

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