01-08-2021, 11:11 AM
At this point we may no longer be able to make jokes about Donald Trump. He seems to have become the scapegoat for much that has gone wrong with America or for doing nothing to undo or mitigate any prior trend that got us into this mess. People have died as the result of this self-coup. More will likely die because the rally is itself a super-spreader event.
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.