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The parallels between America's worst president and Broadway's most evil villain are uncanny.

In “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” Stephen Sondheim’s exceedingly dark but brilliant musical, Sweeney returns to London to seek retribution on the powerful Judge Turpin, who has had him unjustly imprisoned and has taken Sweeney’s daughter as his ward and his intended bride.

Sweeney’s underlying anger is due to very real grave injustices done to him, but his way of dealing with that anger is decidedly less than healthy. Some of what makes the show so compelling is that we, the audience, may be able to point to the source of his desire for revenge but we are simultaneously repulsed by his violence.

Does this have a familiar ring to it? Well, except for the part about the injustices done to him being real, this is also the story of the current resident of the White House.

When Trump was a fame-thirsty man-about-town in New York City, he…