Presidency
As pleasant as Wolf Trap Barns' performance of The Tales of Hoffmann was, it left me with a feeling of disquiet--maybe it was the resemblance between the Republican presidential field and Hoffmann's different lovers: the first a mechanical creation ("physics" her inventor boasts), the second a tragic imitation of her dead mother, and the last a seductress that leads him to give up his soul and murder his rival. That's all fancy of course. Hoffmann discovers that his true love was there all the time, and that the omnipresent devil can be defeated. Is there any such girl next door for the GOP?
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