J.K. Rowlings is now under Twitter siege by, guess who, Trump fans who were fans of hers, now angry ex-fans stirred to invective on account of Rowlings’s criticism of Their Royal Highness, Donald Trump.
Yes! Some of them are now burning her books! (Where have we heard of this kind of thing before?)
(Note the Post has a paywall, and they will block you if you’re not a subscriber and have gone over your monthly limit.)
I think the Post is missing a little something here when they imply that the irate fans fail to understand that her works are about fighting against evil overlords* and demonic autocrats. Actually, I think those fans do understand (or rather, feel, since rational understanding is evidently not their forte), since they view their glorious leader as a rebel against the entrenched powers of The Establishment and The One World Order (and let’s not forget the Islamic Nation which is about to take over the U.S.).
Contrast Obama, who to them was the Man Who Would Be (Illegitimate) King.
Maybe it’s lost on his devoted followers that Donald the Glorious has availed himself of those selfsame overreaching edicts, Executive Orders, for which Obama was excoriated by the Republican Establishment as well as the anti-establishment.
The lesson is, the Dictator is in the eye of the beholder.
* sorry, not being a Potter fan myself, I’m incapable of the wordplay appropriate to the subject)