Hanna Arendt and Trump ...
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... [T]otalitarian movements depend on the sheer force of numbers to such an extent that totalitarian regimes seem impossible, even under otherwise favorable circumstances, in countries with relatively small populations.... [E]ven Mussolini, who was so fond of the term "totalitarian state," did not attempt to establish a full-fledged totalitarian regime and contented himself with dictatorship and one-party rule.[17]
And TACO isn't even a half assed Mussolini. She also wrote on the "banality of evil".
Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil" suggests that ordinary people can commit horrific acts not out of deep-seated malice, but through thoughtlessness and a failure to critically engage with their actions. This idea emerged from her observations of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi bureaucrat who facilitated the Holocaust, portraying him as disturbingly normal rather than a monstrous figure.
This describes ICE and Department of "Homeland Security" (nice Nazi sounding term) hires.
An explanation of TACO's administration:
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
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