Okay, let’s change this.

Let’s rewrite the Gospel of Mark, but with Biden as John the Baptist, Trump as Herod, and his Republican collaborators as Sadducees and Pharisees. But this time with a happy ending. Jesus dodges any and all attempts on his life, and walks up to heaven, waving happily to everyone below, John the Baptist is elected democratically, the Sadducees and Pharisees glad to have learned the error of their ways in time, and Herod allowed to be King of his own house, where he continues to give foolish orders that are now wisely ignored by the wider world.

I can see it all now!

But how to make different characters seem different from one another? How to make Susan Susan, Amble Amble, Bartleby Bartleby, Jesus Jesus, …