Robert Frost

aphoristic nuanced misappropriated

Robert Frost stands as the American poet whose line 'Good fences make good neighbors' from 'Mending Wall' Teddy Tomba quotes in campaign rhetoric. Josh skewers this usage as reductive, lumping Frost alongside Plato as fodder for simplistic slogans that compress literary depth into soundbites suited for short attention spans. Frost operates as an off-screen literary figure whose work fuels debates over intellectual rigor in politics, marking his debut as a touchstone for critiques of fortune-cookie philosophy.

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Robert Frost's Journey

A timeline through the narrative

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S4E4 · The Red Mass

Debrief: Tomba, Kant and the Stakes

N/A — used as evidence of sloganizing rather than as an emotional actor.

Robert Frost is quoted in dialogue (via Tomba) to show how poetry is co-opted into simplistic campaign aphorisms; he is an invoked cultural referent used to highlight misreading.

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