10-17-2018, 10:50 AM
One thing is certain: the 'tribes' on the political left-to-center are far more diverse in ethnicity, faith, and economic circumstance than is the coalition of the Hard Right. Donald Trump is almost as tribal a leader as was Satan Hussein.
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.