Victor Davis Hanson thinks that Bill Clinton is living out a Greek tragedy before our eyes.
Everyone remembers the Greek concept of Nemesis ("the giver of what's due"), and the chain of events that invites her to intervene: a fatal character flaw that leads to hubris that in turn incurs divine retribution, culminating in personal ruin.
Bill Clinton this campaign season seems a character right out of Sophocles, an Oedipus that just can't stop himself. He knows the end, but simply cannot desist, no more than he could lecture Monica about the inappropriateness of a subordinate young female employee satisfying the lusts of her male senior superior boss.
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