The Banality of Buffoonery: Why Ignoring Trump and Anyone Else’s Rhetoric Is Perilous

We live in a peculiar age, where theatrics often masquerade as governance, and one might, perhaps, be forgiven for failing to see the dangers lurking behind the circus tent. The invocation of Hitler as an attack line has become an all-too-common feature of our political discourse, particularly aimed at Republican figures. Since Nixon, nearly every Repub…