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Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a 'Garden of American Heroes.' Is this a joke?

JL;DR SUMMARY Hannah Arendt, the political theorist known for her analysis of totalitarianism, is ironically among those Donald Trump wants to honor in a proposed 'National Garden of American Heroes.' A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Donald TrumpAuthoritarianismPropagandaHannah ArendtRuth Bader GinsburgHistorical NarrativeTotalitarianismCultural PoliticsNational Endowment For The HumanitiesAmerican Heroes

Places mentioned

United States
"Trumps garden was, after all, first proposed as a direct response to the Black Lives Matters movement, when American citizens were trying to rewrite the nations history to pay more attention to its worst moments: slavery, racism, Jim Crow laws."
California, United States
"Sure, Spanish missionaries who forcibly converted Native Americans in California are on the list, but so is Sacagawea and Sitting Bull!"
Israel
"and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse."

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