Lede of the Week: “Trump has proved to be the Nosferatu of American politics.”

The opening of a New York Times column by Jennifer Senior headlined “Is This the Trump Tipping Point?”:

You never want to say that you’ve reached a tipping point with this administration. Donald J. Trump has proved to be the Nosferatu of American politics: heartless, partial to Slavs, beneath grace and thus far impervious to destruction.

Wikipedia: The name “Nosferatu” has been presented as possibly an archaic Romanian word, synonymous with “vampire”. However, it was largely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Western fiction such as Dracula (1897), and the film Nosferatu (1922).

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