“News” outlets are engaged in feverish speculation about just how dystopian Donald Trump’s second term might be. Their fervent imaginations overrule the reality of Trump’s first term, which never devolved into dictatorship.
On Sunday, Politico’s Joanna Weiss conducted a Q&A with liberal Samantha Rose Hill, a scholar of totalitarianism and the author Hannah Arendt. The headline was “‘A Truer Reality Beyond Reality’: Hannah Arendt’s Warning About How Totalitarianism Takes Root.”
Although Stalinism and Nazism are touched upon (barely), the main focus was Orange Man Bad.
Weiss somehow manages to go two paragraphs of the interview before latching on to Trump:
Samantha Rose Hill is a professor at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a leading interpreter of Arendt’s thinking, particularly as it relates to loneliness. She notes that The…
