Milton on Trump in Biden’s Inaugural Address – and the English Revolution

Thy country sought of thee, it sought unjustly,
Against the law of nature, law of nations,
No more thy country, but an impious crew
Of men conspiring to uphold their state
By worse than hostile deeds, violating the ends
For which our country is a name so dear
Not therefore to be obey’d.[1] 

Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671)

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[1] John Milton, “Samson Agonistes” in John Milton: The Major Works, ed. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 694 (889-895).