A funny thing happened on the way to Wallace Stevens' later poetry

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I don't know, do know, why you bother mentioning Donald Trump at the end of your post.

I don't know either.  Something about the movie Joker made me think of how inferior Trump is compared to the fictional construct that Joaquin Phoenix et al. created.  Trump is himself a fictional construct, more so than most human beings, but a tawdry failure, which curiously is what Phoenix is playing at first in the movie, but his tawdry failure is transformed and transformative.  Trump will never be transformed into anything but a shabbier version of himself.  His followers are reactionries, Joker's are revolutionary.

I think I will watch The Dark Knight tonight for another dose of an even more radical Joker.