OK, she dropped a phrase. And I see more than that. Her mistake was that she defended it, perhaps out of self-interest, but it was a mistake. You don’t talk about evil. The fact that she did defend it, is quite telling—a particular concept of evil is in her system and it comes to light on Twitter, because no MSM outlet would ever, ever, allow that. Evil must stay on the periphery—it must remain inexplicable and exculpable. That is what makes it banal.
Is Hillary trying to shove Chelsea down our throats?
Plus, I have no reason to doubt that she did encounter Arendt in school. To Arendt’s credit, student learn that evil is something and not nothing. That is immensely significant because it makes the question, what is evil, legitimate. The most convenient explanation of evil is that it is peripheral and a matter of aberrant psychosis.