“I can’t remember the last time I heard one person call another person ugly. Art: sure. But when it comes to other human beings, we seem to have invested almost totally in metaphoric deployments of the word: ‘ugly’ now describes degrading items like the steadily worsening rhetoric of Donald Trump; or, simply, sinful behavior, as in: ‘God don’t like ugly.’ … No longer does the outward merely track the inward: by an almost forgotten transitive process, the two have become one. … This creates an unnerving blind spot: What happens when evil is made beautiful?”