Fed up with Biden v Trump II? Some succour from fictional rematches

Luke Skywalker fights Darth Vader with light sabers in The Empire Strikes Back.

2024-04-29    

It is six months until the titanic rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump on November 5th—the first in a presidential contest since Dwight Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson again in 1956. Once more common, electoral rematches have grown rarer as national politics has become an unforgiving, one-strike-and-you’re-out game. (Characteristically, Mr Trump is an exception.) On screen and in literature, however, the rematch is a staple of storytelling. Art can illuminate the stakes and motives when past combatants clash anew.

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