I know: what Arendt tried to capture in Eichmann as “banal” is different from what happens in the US. It is different from that “normalcy”. And yet I felt reminded to the (in)famous Banality of Evil:
„It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never ‘radical’, that it is only extreme, […]
[…] and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is ‘thought-defying’, as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the […]
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Meanwhile, the current President of the United States threatens while at the DOJ any negative (truthful) coverage from them is illegal.
Barely a mention and forgotten already.
„It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never ‘radical’, that it is only extreme, […]
Hannah Arendt, letter to Gerhard Scholem (December 1964)
"...appears as..."
"...while opponents have a different view..."
"...extra-constitutional measures..."
"...aggressive falsehoods..."