friend that the movie was a documentary, not a farce. Today, as corporate, neo-fascist, and white
nationalist voices take up cabinet and other positions in the Trump White House, the same can be
said of The Terrible Twos.
Yet even Reed’s Neo-Hoodooism could not imagine some of the more “terrible” and
terrifying elements of the current historical moment, such as the rise of a reactionary neo-fascist
news network in Fox News; Trump’s use of a new electronic medium, home computers and the
internet, to communicate directly to his millions of (primarily white) supporters; his proposal to
build a two-thousand-mile impenetrable wall to prevent Mexican immigrants, “criminals” and
“rapists” from overwhelming America; his appointment of his daughter and son-in-law to White
House advisory positions; and his overt flouting of the U.S. Constitution, which in The Terrible
Twos at least takes place surreptitiously.
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Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. 1953. Simon & Schuster, 2012.
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. 1962. W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.
Canon, Steve et al. “A Gathering of the Tribes: Conversation with Ishmael Reed.” Conversations
with Ishmael Reed. Ed. Bruce Dick and Amritjit Singh. University Press of Mississippi,
1995, pp. 361-381.
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