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No actor could vanquish the memory preserved for posterity in Elia Kazan’s film.

Trump, the hero, will vanquish all villains and fools, change the Constitution, prosecute any citizen or official who opposes him, and make a lot of money on the side.

Throughout the Trumpocene, these “reasonable” and “mainstream” voices were confident that “the walls were closing in” and heroes would rise, like in an old Hollywood movie, to vanquish the bad guy and save the day.

Trump’s return to power and his election for a second time should have vanquished naïve beliefs in the fundamental decency of the American people and the eternal nature of American democracy.

Instead, still a couple of weeks out from his 18th birthday, Littler calmly made his way through the rounds and then put in a display as mature as it was astonishing to vanquish Van Gerwen.