Unspeakable Acts: Annals of American Fascism
Americans have always been willing to put on uniforms and perform unspeakable acts. The Trail of Tears, those who hunted down slaves, internment, participation in lynching, ignoring lynching, policing minority communities, etc. Americans have always been willing. Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” is a useful way to consider these acts of evil, but we can’t …