Media: @gtconway3d to @AndersonCooper: #DonaldTrump "is not a very intelligent man, but he does have a reptilian form of intellect that really lends itself to this kind of rhetoric. ... It's something that's difficult for the press to wrestle with, difficult for all of us to wrestle with, because we're not used to confronting evil in the flesh the way we have to now. #Trump basically represents all that you don't want humanity to be. He brings out the worst in people. That is basically his nature, and that is what we're seeing here today as he becomes more and more desperate because his businesses are threatened by litigation in New York and he's facing 91 counts in four different jurisdictions. He is going to foment more hatred and more violence. What psychologists and sociologists call this is 'malignant normality' -- we've gotten so used to his rhetoric, his behavior, that we hesitate to call it out and we don't necessarily see the danger that has crept up on us. But it is profoundly dangerous because if you look back on history and ask how it was that 6 million Jews were killed in Europe in the early 1940s, if you ask how genocide starts, it starts with an evil man using this kind of rhetoric to move and sway and encourage hatred among people."
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