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"This is the United States of America and we will not be intimidated by a wannabe dictator in the executive branch," he wrote.

The show imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a hard-drinking, boisterous, wannabe cabaret star, beleaguered by her marriage to what Escola imagines is an obviously gay president.

Just as its opening triggers hope for its wannabe family men, you want “I Don’t Understand You” to really nail its downward spiral, and yet it’s something of a misfire, albeit a likable one.

In particular, Adam, a wannabe soldier for the Israel Defense Forces, starts out too troubled and extreme for his depiction to fade as it does.

In my own work, I describe the Age of Trump and this version of authoritarian populism as “wannabe fascism.”