01-04-2018, 06:08 PM
Here is the supreme irony: you have linked to a good and provocative article. You could cut and paste the introductory paragraph or two (protected by the doctrine of Fair Use) to get others tempted to read the article. (I regret to say that my main computer is down, so I cannot cut-and-paste from the article while using a reader).
Dermagogues are dangerous, and our Constitution is wholly inadequate as a defense of liberal democracy (which can be very different from the wish-fulfillment of the followers of the demagogue,which could imply the refutation of liberal norms. I am speaking also of Donald Trump, but I could as easily speak of Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, Erdogan in Turkey, or Orban in Hungary).
Dermagogues are dangerous, and our Constitution is wholly inadequate as a defense of liberal democracy (which can be very different from the wish-fulfillment of the followers of the demagogue,which could imply the refutation of liberal norms. I am speaking also of Donald Trump, but I could as easily speak of Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, Erdogan in Turkey, or Orban in Hungary).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.