Does Scrooge Reign in the USA Today?
Headlines about Trump's "Great Wall" along the Mexican-US border and the Trump administration's decision to deport more Cambodians put me to mind of Scrooge this morning. The USA is increasingly the country of Scrooge before his awakening to compassion and charity. Indeed, the miserly Scrooge is a decent model for Trump, except with Scrooge you always knew he had a heart. But Trump is hardly solely to blame; he's just a horrifying exemplar of a culture consumed with narcissism in pursuit of money and a few more "mean sticks of furniture."