{"id":615,"date":"2026-01-15T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/donald-trump-is-waging-war-against-human-conscience-osita-nwanevu-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:00:32","slug":"donald-trump-is-waging-war-against-human-conscience-osita-nwanevu-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/donald-trump-is-waging-war-against-human-conscience-osita-nwanevu-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is waging war against human conscience | Osita Nwanevu | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Stephen Miller\u2019s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. \u201cWe live in a world, in the real world &#8230; that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,\u201d he declared. \u201cThese are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller\u2019s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren\u2019t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to \u2013 that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much \u2060and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.<\/p>\n<p>Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization \u2013 western or any kind \u2013 they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late \u2013 neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jan\/14\/donald-trump-plato-gender-education\">www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jan\/14\/donald-trump-plato-gender-education<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Miller\u2019s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. \u201cWe live in a world, in the real world &#8230; that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,\u201d he declared. \u201cThese are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10,38],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-culture","tag-democracy","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}