Watch Mr. Wizard

In the Tollkien fantasy Lord of the Rings the evil tyrant Sauron rules over the dark land of Mordor.

I find eerie parallels between Sauron and our current President*. As Sauron casts a malevolent far-seeing eye that targets his enemies from afar, so does Trump spew venom via Twitter to zombify the brains of his followers.

As evil wizards do, he takes vicious rumors and toxic innuendoes and pulls them into our reality by publicizing the most vile conspiracy theories in order to besmirch his enemies.

Finally, his policies of environmental destruction echo Tollkien’s description of the land of Mordor “where the shadows lie”. I just hope we don’t go “full-Mordor” before we can end his evil actions.