Tuesday, November 15, 2016

"... And The Evil of Banality" - Post election reaction 6


Brian Beutler of the New Republic has quickly become essential reading for me in the era of Trumpism.  In his opinion piece, "Donald Trump and the Evil of Banality" he turns Hannah Arendt's now famous description of Adolf Eichmann (Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil) inside out to lay out how even the most mundane week of a Trump presidency will be an opportunity for disaster.

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