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Trump and the Specter of Totalitarianism
"Trump is simply the most visible embodiment of a society that is not merely suspicious of critical thought but disdains it. Trump is the quintessential symbol of the merging of a war-like arrogance, a militant certainty, and as self-absorbed unworldliness in which he is removed from problems of the real world.
The clueless Trump is far from a kind of clownish fiction some writers have described him to be. Trump’s presence on the political landscape [is] an indication and warning of the specter of totalitarianism confronting Americans in new forms."
a long and illuminating article by Henry Giroux, one of our country's treasures and a foremost intellectual:
http://www.counterpunch.org/author/henry-giroux/