“I was reminded of Hannah Arendt describing the trial of Adolf Eichmann. ‘The trouble,’ she wrote, ‘was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal.’”
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“She described this as the “banality of evil”—the willingness of otherwise ordinary people to do extraordinarily evil things.
But the traitors in that violent mob did not act on their own.”
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But the traitors in that violent mob did not act on their own.”
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“The events of January 6 began much earlier, seeded and spurred on by a deranged president and many of the nation’s most powerful Republican politicians.”
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“By the time the riot occurred, it seemed all but inevitable—the clear and direct result of repetitive lies told to the American public by reckless and feckless actors, all in the name of retaining or attaining political power.”
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