10-09-2018, 07:56 AM
No -- the problem is that Donald Trump and the GOP are so intent on winning that they willingly debase the game that they play as they satisfy themselves by 'winning'. Trump has introduced Machiavellian politics to the American process.
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.