08-21-2020, 09:22 PM
Some pollster has assumed a "shy Trump supporter" as a commonplace phenomenon: someone who truly supports Trump but is scared to admit it. The phenomenon may have been real in 2016, but this isn't 2016 anymore.
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.