Wednesday, January 20, 2021

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is gone


 

Trump left the White House an hour or two ago. So he's gone.

The Wizard of Oz ends with the assurance that once the Wizard is exposed as a fraud, the world will be set to rights. Eventually, everything will be as it was supposed to be. Dorothy will get back home.

But this wizard has left behind a mass of Munchkins that still believe there's a Wizard behind the curtain. What would L. Frank Baum make of this awkward reality?

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