Talking Quixotic Trumpism with Cervantes and his Homies Stephen Colbert and Sacha Cohen

by David R. Castillo

[…] As we travel deeper into the reality-on-demand digital age that has produced the most effective and far-reaching disinformation-spreading machines in history, from Fox News to Facebook/Meta to Twitter, let’s not underestimate the power of irony to expose counterfeits and combat demagoguery. There’s surely a reason why Spanish fascist ideologues feared Don Quixote and why cultural critics like Walter Benjamin embraced the Cervantine strategy against toxic political mythologies. […]