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Donald Trump’s Mysterious Sense of Irony

The president is even further from the definition than Alanis Morissette was.
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Alanis Morissette is getting another look. The singer who’s associated with sex acts in a and vengeance against Dave Coulier is also a political visionary, at least according to the jukebox musical that’s now running at Harvard’sAmerican Repertory Theater. Diablo Cody’s script uses Morissette’s raging rock to touch upon Women’s March–like protesting, gender fluidity, sexual assault, interracial adoption,, well, it is. But at least it can claim to be on trend, given that Donald Trump just ratified the political significance of Morissette.

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