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It scares me that Trump keeps saying “late great Hannibal Lecter” because in truth Lecter was a good guy; otherwise Clarice would have never fallen in love with him. Lecter only killed persons who were getting away with horrible crimes themselves.
If Trump as president did carry out his apparent fantasies as reported Sept 9 in Rolling Stone, and if those acts resulted in murdered Americans, Trump might consider Hannibal the Cannibal as a kind of role model. I read the first three Thomas Harris books so my knowledge of the fictional character goes beyond the films about him.
Lecter is a killer who is also a good guy and that is what scares me about the way Trump brings him up so fondly, and often. Is he fantasizing about the glory he would be able to get from murdering those who he deems to be bad guys, as outlined in several places in Project 2025?
He's projecting something with the Lecter references. So my brain asks, what is he projecting? Of all the characters in American literature, why else would Trump keep bringing up Hannibal Lecter?
If Trump is identifying with this killer character, the former president is even more dangerous than he's been letting on. There's a romantic leap the reader takes as Clarice falls for Hannibal that so many of us wish we could take....
-kay ebeling
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