Today I heard NBC talkers referring to the fall of Kevin McCarthy as "a Greek tragedy." My guess is that they've forgotten their Aristotle.
A tragic hero is someone well-known and decent who comes to an undeserved bad end. He or she must be someone we identify with. A tragic hero does not offend our moral sensibilities.
McCarthy isn't decent. He isn't even a vertebrate. The dude has as much spine as a cow pie baking on a commercial street in Bakersfield at high noon in mid-July.
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