Democrats don’t want to debate you. They want to filter your reality

In her landmark analysis of totalitarian regimes, Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe a deeply disturbing insight: great evil is not always committed by sadistic monsters. It can also be committed by ordinary people who stop thinking critically about what they are doing and conform to authority or routine. In the modern political landscape, this concept undergoes a subtle but dangerous transformation into the banality of political thought, where ordinary politicians surrender independent moral judgment to conform to the authority of their party.Increasingly justified under the banner of public safety, a growing contingent of politicians — most notably within the Democratic Party — profess a deep commitment to free expression while systematically working to…

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