President Legree?

After writing the previous post, I thought to refresh my memory of the original Simon Legree, the character created by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Here are highlights from the character analysis by CliffsNotes:

1) If Tom’s bearing and behavior show that he is among the elect, Legree’s show quite definitely that he is not.

2) ... [A]fter he had spent some years at sea living a dissolute life, he was “almost persuaded” by his mother’s prayers to reform but instead chose sin.... Stowe’s narrator describes Legree’s critical moment as a genuine conflict between good and evil in which evil triumphs

3) Legree affects everyone near him for the worse. [Including] his “brothers” ... whom he uses as companions and henchmen, alternately punishes and rewards, and has turned into tools for draining the life and dignity from the field workers.

4) Legree is a materialist who sees human beings as nothing but material that can be used for profit.... Legree not only sees clearly what he is and what he does to others but also revels in it. ... [I]n truth, what he really wants is to exercise the absolute power of life and death—and more, the power of moral destruction—over these people.

5) What Legree wants, finally, is worship and fear; he has gone beyond capitalism and the profit motive and come out the other side.