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On December 10, 1896, a new king seized the throne in Paris: King Ubu. It happened during the one and only public performance of Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, which begins with a bloodcurdling scream “sheeeeee-it!” and only gets more vulgar from there.

When Trump was first elected president in 2016, quite a few commentators noticed that Trump is an American Ubu. As Charles Simic explained in the New York Review of Books:

The only character I can think of in the world literature who resembles Donald Trump is Père Ubu in the play Ubu Roi (“Ubu the King”) by Alfred Jarry that famously opened and closed in Paris on December 10, 1896, after starting a riot. A parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and now a classic of the theater of the absurd and the forerunner of the Dada and Surrealism movements, the play is a depiction of the lust for power, full of insolent nonsense and violent horseplay. Père Ubu is a buffoonish pretender to the throne of Poland, a brutal and greedy megalomaniac who, after killing off the royal family, starts murdering his own population in order to rob them of their money. One audience member at the premiere of the play, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, was aghast at what he had witnessed and reputedly said afterward: “What more is possible? After us, the Savage God.”

That’s how elites are reacting to Trump’s chaotic restoration: “What more is possible? After us, the Savage God.” But the commoners are cheering. They like Trump’s “deport ‘em all” rhetoric, his trashing of DEI and gender-bending, his withdrawal from the WHO and banning gain-of-function research, his

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