10-25-2017, 07:42 PM
The totalitarian playbook is as such: first, eliminate or control the opposition so that your clique has an effective monopoly on power. Then you purge your own clique of those people that you ascertain are inadequately loyal to Your Magnificence.
Trump has started with Step 2.
Trump has started with Step 2.
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.