The Jesuit poet Peter Steele would open his Jonathan Swift
lecture with Benito Mussolini: “I have eliminated in myself all egotisms.” Make
Rome Great Again? Impossible. Ego is a balancing act, requiring neither too
much nor too little. This August the world was told that Donald Trump told the
Australian PM, “I’m the world’s greatest person.” This may’ve been a reality
check for Malcolm Turnbull, whose ego is not without greatness, but serves to
remind us of the adjective Swiftian. It was recently observed that Trump is the
opposite of Franklin Roosevelt; he “speaks loudly and carries a tiny stick.”
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