I regret to inform you that 2020 hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is out with a “Game of Thrones” take at the Cut. It is every bit as bad as you’d expect.
“The world needs fewer Cersei Lannisters,” Warren declares. And she would replace them with more Daenerys Targaryens.
So Warren would replace the autonomous female ruler, who overcame a literal patriarchy to become queen by right of effective conquest, with an inbred, deposed princess who considers herself the rightful ruler of a country she’s never lived in by right of agnatic primogeniture. Given the revelation that her lover is actually her nephew and the rightful heir to the House Targaryen, a fallacious interpretation of the line of succession at that.
Honestly, it checks out.
Dany, whom Warren lauds for not “serv[ing] the interests of the rich,” may be less evil than Cersei. After all, it’s difficult not to be worse than a woman who sleeps with one of her brothers and wants to kill the other. But Dany has hardly proven she has either the tact or the merit to take the Iron Throne. Until she acquired Tyrion Lannister — literally called “The Gift” from Jorah Mormont — as her hand, she spent years wandering around Yunkai and Mereen doing almost nothing. She’s alienated Samwell Tarly, perhaps the most affable and intellectually useful character in Westeros, by ordering her dragon to burn Tarly’s father and brother to death for refusing to immediately bend the knee to a “queen” they met five and a half seconds ago, and she has no real plan to take back King’s Landing after her attempt to defeat the White Walkers.
Unsurprisingly, Warren’s argument comes down to income inequality:
Warren’s not wrong that Cersei’s alienated herself from the popular support and allies necessary to successfully govern. And I agree that the world needs fewer blonde women who feel entitled to rule countries because they married the former rulers of said countries and ruthlessly destroy the lives of anyone who stands in their way.
Or, as the consummate Robby Soave puts it:
The other fucks her twin brother.
But the world doesn’t need to replace one batch of entitled, inept blondes with another. At this point, Sansa and Tyrion, who may technically still be married, have proven the most adept at the “Game of Thrones,” and Maggy the Frog’s prophecy that a “younger, more beautiful” queen will unseat her applies just as well to Sansa, who’s survived two forced marriages, countless rapes, Joffrey, and Littlefinger only to hold the North together and safeguard food for the Long Winter, just as well as it does to Dany.
But if the slightly less evil, entitled career politician can replace the more evil one, that may bode well for a certain senator seeking to win a presidential primary once won by another.
