And one need only look at some of the childish men Trump surrounds himself with. Men like Elon Musk who uses ketamine and fantasizes about armored cars and colonizing mars, or petulant boys like Matt Gaetz, who still avoids accountability for sex trafficking...

... to say or do what they want when they want. When a criminal like Donald Trump is given power and authority and can avoid accountability for his misuse of power, it signals to other men with boyish power fantasies that maybe they can do the same. Jan 6 is proof of this...

Johnny Bates, aka "Kid Miracleman" is a young boy who, like Shazam, can change into an invincible hero when he says a magic word. After a terrible accident, Miracleman loses memory of his powers and grows up. But Johnny never forgets, and never changes back to a kid...

Since the election, I've thought a lot about Alan Moore's "Miracleman" and particularly about the villain, Johnny Bates. It's a parable about the dangers of never growing up, of being given power at an early age, and the inevitable tyranny of boyish fantasies...