If everything is dangerous, then we always have something to do.”īut does Hahn believe that? Even her grandmother can’t be sure. Or as Foucault might have put it - and as Hahn quoted in her videotaped presentation - “my point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous. What is the cause? Her mentor, Bannon, has for years spoken darkly of the clashes of civilizations he sees overtaking the world - between Christians and Muslims, between native-born Americans and immigrants, between the elites and the working man. “Maybe she actually believes the cause is so important it’s worth. “She knows nitpicking and building up straw men just to knock them down are not strong argument forms,” he said. She’s super smart,” said her former college classmate Fry.
So perhaps that Trumpian moment when the lights went out was Hahn’s moment of a lifetime.Īs for Hahn a Washington Post profile from a year ago ended with this: She is a young girl who wrote a major’s thesis in postmodern intellectual theory – a pithole of thinking that often asserts that there is no “truth” and the only thing that matters is power and using language in pure propaganda to achieve it. Hahn is an interesting person to be in this position. Julia Hahn’s job in the communications department is to act as a liason to friendly Trump media outlets. She came in as the assistant to Steve Bannon and when he left moved into the communications department in close alliance with Stephen Miller in early June – right before the immigration crisis broke – which Trump created. Of course this brought immediate talk in internet world that a secret message was being sent to Trump – which means to his followers that he is struggling against deep state forces on their behalf.Ī reporter in the room on twitter said that a White House staffer turned off the lights. One of the odder events happened when in the White House cabinet room Donald Trump walked but, but did not walk back some of his statements made during the Putin press conference on Monday.Īs Trump started to read his statement walking back his comments on Tuesday (in a manner to show that he didn’t really mean it) the lights went out in the room. This has been one of the strangest ten days in the history of the American Presidency.