Masha Gessen: Trump’s Defense Was an Insult to the Impeachment Proceedings and an Assault on Reason
The impeachment trial affirmed Hannah Arendt’s insight that two paradoxical qualities characterize the audiences of totalitarians: gullibility and cynicism. “Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial was an artifact of his Presidency,” writes Distinguished Writer in Residence Masha Gessen. “It was a battle of meaning against noise, against nothing-means-anything-and-everything-is-the-same nihilism—and nihilism won.”
Post Date: 02-14-2021
Post Date: 02-14-2021