I am enjoying the PBS Masterpiece Theater presentation of Hillary Mantel’s “Wolf Hall”, the story of Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII, and some of his wives. The similarity of The Orange wannabe king and Henry are pretty strong, and there is a spoken line that seems so appropriate to this time of Orangeness - “The Age of Persuasion has ended; we have entered the Age of Coercion”.
But, it looks like the Age of the Orange One is starting to fade. The mad king is less and less connected to reality, more and more connected to unfathomable greed, incompetence, and corruption. And Republicans are finally noticing that the Emperor Has No Clothes - that indeed, he is just an old fart who has had his moment and hasn’t figured out how to leave without ending up in prison.
His coercion is starting to fail. And the coerced will turn away? Or will the circle and attack like hyenas?
