How do quotes from The Big Lebowski predict, echo or explain the rise of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election?

On its initial release, the idiosyncratic 1998 crime comedy – part Murder, My Sweet, part The Big Sleep, part love letter to everything ridiculous about 90s Los Angeles – underperformed at the box office and failed to amuse critics.

But Joel and Ethan Coen’s seventh film has been positively reappraised so often that it was selected for preservation in the US Library of Congress in 2014, and has never quite fallen out of fashion as a tool for explaining the American mind.

Take, for example, David Haglund’s Iraq war meditation Walter Sobchak, Neocon at Slate. Or, of course, thanks to the peer-reviewed journal Communication Studies, Representing Automobility: No literal connection: images of mass commodification, US militarism, and the oil industry, in The Big Lebowski.

So let us – admittedly mostly as an excuse to sit around quoting the most quotable American film of all – count the ways the film reflects what condition Donald Trump’s condition is in:

1. “You have no frame of reference here, Donny. You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie …” – Walter Sobchak to Theodore Donald Kerabatsos, who also has not held publicly elected office. See also Hillary Clinton, Lester Holt, Chris Christie and pretty much everybody to Donald Trump after the first presidential debate on Monday.

2. “What was all that shit about Vietnam? What the fuck has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?” – The Dude to Walter, after the attempted disposal of Donny’s ashes. See also John McCain and thousands of very angry veterans to Donald Trump, June 2015.

3. “Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?” – Walter to no one in particular, after Smokey puts his toe over the line. Or perhaps doesn’t. See also Donald Trump’s “law and order” speech to the Republican convention, Cleveland, July 2016.

‘Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?’

4. “Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude – at least it’s an ethos.” – Walter on the subject of nihilism and nihilists. See also comments of David Duke, Trump supporter, former Nazi and current Senate candidate, July 2016.

5. “Donny, you’re out of your element! Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here.” – Walter to Donny and the Dude in an argument about who peed on the Dude’s rug and who thus owes restitution. See also Hillary Clinton last week, in debate exchanges over who might have been to blame for the Democratic National Committee email hack. See also Walter to Donny (sort of): “VV Putin! Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin!”

6. “Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.” – Walter, reproving the Dude with wise words that demographic shifts and polling results suggest Trump probably ought to be heeding.

7. “Do you speak English, sir? Parla usted inglés?” – The other, richer Jeffrey Lebowski, to the Dude, with less wise words similar to something Donald might have said to the president of Mexico before not mentioning that he wants him to pay for a wall.

8. “Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr Lebowski?” – Maud Lebowski, to the Dude. See Alicia Machado, Rosie O’Donnell, Megyn Kelly, Maud Lebowski and 157 million American women, pretty much constantly, since last summer and probably from now on.

9. “Look, pal, there never was any money. Lebowski gave me an empty briefcase, so take it up with him, man!” – The Dude to the nihilists, shortly before Donny’s fatal heart attack. Similar comments also attributable to unidentified federal tax officials.

10. “Obviously, you’re not a golfer.”

‘Obviously, you’re not a golfer.’

11. “Look, just stay away from my fucking lady friend …” – The Dude to the private detective Da Fino, played by the late and lamented Jon Polito. Also Trump, via his lawyers, to the universe after an uncomfortable summer for his wife, Melania.

12. “Do you have to use so many cuss words?”

Donald Trump’s cuss words.

15. “Shut the fuck up, Donny” – The world to Trump, from his campaign launch at Trump Tower in Manhattan on 16 June 2015 to 7 November 2016, the eve of the most consequential presidential election in decades.

14. “I love you, but sooner or later, you’re going to have to face the fact you’re a goddamn moron.” – The world to America, 8 November 2016, as America votes in the most consequential presidential election in decades.

15. “Nothing is fucked? The goddamn plane has crashed into the mountain!” – The world to itself, 9 November 2016, the day after the most consequential presidential election in decades. Possibly.