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Such a #totalizing claim to be empowered to “fit #reality to their lies” is precisely the capacity that #Arendt finds in #totalitarian movements before they actually attain the power to do so. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and faction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between #true and #false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”  … 

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

President Trump, on the other hand, will never admit he is #wrong, will never concede a #factualerror, and he challenges the existence of any authoritative #reality. Even when he conceded that President #Obama was born in the United States or  … 

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

President Trump, on the other hand, will never admit he is #wrong, will never concede a #factualerror, and he challenges the existence of any authoritative #reality. Even when he conceded that President #Obama was born in the United States or  … 

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

President Trump, on the other hand, will never admit he is #wrong, will never concede a #factualerror, and he challenges the existence of any authoritative #reality. Even when he conceded that President #Obama was born in the United States or  … 

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

#BernieSanders also mobilized a movement of #lonely and #rootless #cosmopolitans, many of whom sought to stifle #dissent and punish deviations from the movement’s ideological center. Much like the movement led by President Trump, the opposition also has characteristics of a reality-denying movement.

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

#BernieSanders also mobilized a movement of #lonely and #rootless #cosmopolitans, many of whom sought to stifle #dissent and punish deviations from the movement’s ideological center. Much like the movement led by President Trump, the opposition also has characteristics of a reality-denying movement.

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

#BernieSanders also mobilized a movement of #lonely and #rootless #cosmopolitans, many of whom sought to stifle #dissent and punish deviations from the movement’s ideological center. Much like the movement led by President Trump, the opposition also has characteristics of a reality-denying movement.

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books: Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism”

Why Arendt Matters: Revisiting “The Origins of Totalitarianism” – Los Angeles Review of Books