Michelle Goldberg: A White House infected with propaganda

There is a line from Hannah Arendt’s 1951 book “The Origins of Totalitarianism” that I’ve thought about constantly during the last four years. “Totalitarianism will not be satisfied to assert, in the face of contrary facts, that unemployment does not exist; it will abolish unemployment benefits as part of its propaganda,” Arendt wrote.A regime dedicated to creating its own reality doesn’t just use language to lie. To truly animate lies, those in power mu