Watching the MAGA phenomena has been both fascinating and frightening. What is it within the human condition that causes normally good people to do evil things?
How can normally good people – people who have children, work hard at their jobs and go to church every Sunday – and yet somehow, these same people willingly support obvious evil? Fantastic question. This is how men like AH came to power! “God is with us!” If you still support Trump at this time, you are actually a moral degenerate. It’s more than just a difference of opinion or political position. In order to support Trump, you have to be a bad person morally.. Good morning! From the book: “So, the conclusion: If AH was stupid or a criminal, and the people voted for him in droves, then they too must have been stupid and criminal. But that is not possible, so AH was not stupid and no criminal. The other possibility, the point that is being resisted, is that perhaps a very great number of Germans, perhaps the overwhelming majority, were, in fact, extraordinarily stupid, that in politically matters a great number still are, and that what we see here is a situation of intellectual and ethical rottenness which in fact supported the rise of the phenomenon oh AH.” – Voegelin, pg. 56. Applies 100% to the MAGA phenomenon! History may not actually repeat itself, but it sure does often rhyme!