https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...

Part of the modern US trend of "progressive" intellectuals to turn everything into fodder for partisan politics and demonise the Republicans. I know that Republican intellectuals also do this, with equally laughable claims ("Democrats are far-left").

Hence, it's difficult to read this seriously. It even has the intentionally unsubtle implications, the literary equivalent of a knowing eye wink, and the willful misunderstanding of jokes as being some.dark portents... Granted, Democrats (the party that presided over a genocide) are not mentioned or lauded, but the superiority of Democratic persuasion is heavily implied, and this makes the whole argument shaky.

And it's drenched with spite for the people: populism is bad, because look at the masses being too stupid to understand what's good for them. I don't know, leftist populists seem to be on point about where the issues lie.

Long-winded comment to say: this is bottom of the barrel US team politics disguised as something higher, by quoting TS Eliot and using complicated words.