Mycotropichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/29/tom-lehrer-obituary
"Afterwards he wrote the song It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier, about strange and disturbing army folk: “Now Fred’s an intellectual, brings a book to every meal. / He likes the deep philosophers, like Norman Vincent Peale.” Peale was a famous evangelical Christian of even more than usual banality and intolerance, and also the Trump family pastor, who gave the US president his ethical base."
It's interesting that Lehrer chose the name "Fred" when he targeted Norman Vincent Peale since NVP was the asshole who helped create the asshole we now know as trump. I'd never read about NVP but JEEZE is he ever an influencer in the worst possible way.
