Many Trump Supporters Are Not Evil. That Is the Problem.
There is a conversation happening on the left that needs to stop.
It goes like this. Someone tries to explain Trump supporters. They say they are not all bad people. They say some of them are just scared. Some of them are just misinformed. Some of them just want lower taxes and did not realize what they were signing up for.
And then someone else in the conversation says: it does not matter. They are still responsible.
Both of those things are true. And Hannah Arendt figured out why sixty years ago.
The Trial
In 1963, philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt traveled to Jerusalem to…
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