Mediocrity

Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi are mediocre. They exemplify the kind of limited personalities that Trump surrounds himself with. The only MAGA individual who has at least pretensions to anti-humanism is Steve Bannon. In American Dharma he quoted Milton’s “better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” Bravo! Steve Miller, Pete Navarro, Ed Martin—these are the black shirts. There isn’t even a Goering who as Hitler's Maecenus attempted to loot Italian masterpieces for the Hitler Fuhrermuseum in Linz. Trump probably never heard of Caravaggio, but as Satan in the current Medieval passion play, he has a significant role to perform. This jolly crew does not represent "the banality of evil"--the phrase used about Eichmann. A description of them does not earn that level of locution. These clowns are just banal.

read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle

and listen to "Twenty-Five Miles From Home" by Edwin Starr