Eichmann’s perverse blind mindlessness enabled him to create the ghastly, orderly efficiency of the Holocaust. He helped establish the Central Offices for Jewish Emigration for the deportation of millions of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps, he scheduled trains, arranged for the seizure of Jewish property and ensured his department benefited from confiscated assets, and was a principal organizer of Hitler’s “Final Solution.”

I find frightening echoes in Trump and his Republican-controlled Senate and Congress marching in lockstep, the shockingly compromised Supreme Court, the toadying Cabinet members. Here lies the ‘banality of evil.’ While some in charge may be in ideological agreement, others at lower levels are ‘just doing their jobs’ or fearful of not doing them without fully grasping their consequences (i.e.: separating families, withholding food from hungry children, and creating other horrors). Trumpism is an evil ideology – one that can exist after him if it is not defeated while he’s here.