OBAMA AS GREEK TRAGEDY: Victor Davis Hanson on the self-centered protagonist.

The blueprint of a Sophoclean or even Euripidean tragedy is pretty straightforward. A confident, cocky tragic hero for about the first 600 lines of the play exhibits unconstrained exuberance as he takes on the world.

Then comes the inevitable fall. It would be a most enjoyable movie, except that it isn’t a movie, and The Won is likely to take him with us. Stay tuned for Part II.