02-11-2021, 03:38 PM
Did we miss George Shultz? The steady hand in the Reagan Administration, he likely kept things from spiraling into a mess. He could say no and make it stick without acting despotically. Trump could have used someone like him, but convincing someone who knows everything is really difficult.
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.