Why MAGA Stupidity is Dangerous
In April of 1945, a German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenburg concentration camp. He was 39 years old. The camp was liberated days later.
Bonhoeffer had been arrested in 1943 for his involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. While he waited in his cell for the execution he knew was coming, he did not write about God. He did not write about salvation. He wrote about stupidity.
The essay he left behind, simply titled “On Stupidity,” is one of the most unsettling documents ever written about how democracies die. Not from the outside. Not from military…
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