own ambition and through his own lack of questioning became one of the biggest monsters in the whole nazi system so the quintessential portrayal of the banality of evil if you will and it s interesting because at the time there was a lot of shock in the german public but there was also a lot of controversy you know after after each episode of holocaust when it was aired at the time there was a follow up companion show in which the public could phone in with questions to a panel of historians now that was really unprecedented and after the very first episode ten thousand people phoned in the panel was completely overwhelmed by all these thousands of calls from shocked and angry germans on a much more sinister level there was also violent protest for instance when a group of right wing terrorists actually tried to blow up the transmission towers of the transmitters. in western germany they actually wanted to prevent
minnesota professor tweeted that mary could not have consented the birth of christ, therefore god was behaving in a predatory manner. have you taken any of his classes, mark steyn? no, and the reason is, this is because 50 years ago, this kind of shallow banality would have been the province of a drunk undergraduate at three in the morning. i mean, basically the idea that god has gotten the virgin mary back to his pad and she is saying, i really must go, and he isnd saying, baby it s cold outside and put some records on while i poor, i miss the days when atheists were at least intelligent enough to take seriously what they were forcing to knock down. the stupidity and banality and shallowness and productiveness
going along with him and overlooking what may touch out to be some very, very damaging stuff. matt, you re making the point that you was trying to make more articulately than i can. that s exactly the point i m making. what does this have to do, listen to what he s saying as we said doesn t mean any of it will be proven. it s going to be proven that he did something wrong but that s why you have insurance in your home and on your car and everything else because you are preparing for worst. it doesn t mean you don t love him and don t like the way they re performing. it means you have insurance in case something bad happens. rick, weigh in, please. so here s my point. and i heard what steve said. and i m going to assess it this way. donald trump is an thor taian statist driven by lis ego, driven by banality. he s driven by three big things, what makes him money, what you the s him in the press and
she was netizens she has very little jewish feeling she s a militant she was none of he said that all the progress if you will of peace not a little was the banality of moon good luck you stood the greatest machine she knew interest in you that she didn t know what forward i m a little bit of a one trick pony who need to learn the views of. but be decided to marry each other i think that when you have to be to look in i told what julie s done and she did. and joe she really left later came november night in one thousand she came to the shed then suddenly fifty years ago i told her i m going to. try to commit. ten percent of the good on to the windows
does banality after banality. now, it s also orwellian in that its basic claims are in the very opposite of the truth. of course, trump is not evidence that our democracy is dying. he is the product of self-government like it or not. almost nobody in power in thise country on either side wanted him to become president. they outspent him 2-1, they had attacked his voters. and he won anyway. because lots of people voted foh him. that s the textbook definition of democracy. he won the electoral college. hillary clinton didn t like the outcome of the election so now she demands that we change the constitution and write new rules that would ensure more democrats would win. out with the electoral college and in with california and new york in choosing the president, along with the tiny group of left-wing billionairele tech oligarchs who control our access to all news and information, like the hillary version of democracy and fewer people making decisions. other leading democrats seem to