Seeing devils and demons clearly for who they are, unmasking them, is the first step toward freeing ourselves from their sway.

It’s not politically correct to mention physical appearance and the way people dress and move, but we theater folk notice that sort of stuff, and rightly so. It communicates.

Hannah Arendt coined the phrase, “the banality of evil” about soft-spoken bland-looking Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi mass murderer. Devils can come masked as ordinary-looking politicians we see daily on TV.

In this new American fascist era, our fear and indignation, though justified, can blind us. On the other hand, looking our corrupt rulers in the face, calmly observing all their warts and pimples, is a meditation that can increase awareness and ultimately lead to peaceful action.

Have you seen a clip of our (alas) Attorney General Jeff Sessions lying to comedian/actor Senator Al Franken about talking to the Russians during the Donald’s campaign? Sessions, thin-voiced and tight-lipped with slicked-down hair, looks like a goody-goody teacher’s pet who will gladly stab you in the back. If Sessions gives you the shivers, trust them. Coretta Scott King, who saw Sessions in action, warned us about him, and she was clearly right.

Also worth studying: the Donald entering the crowded House Chamber on his big speech night, heralded by a loud usher and preceded by two sharp-faced old security hawks. Shaking the hands of many flatterers, the Donald looked corpulent, aggressive, florid, and humorless. With his dyed yellow hair and loose tie, despite for the first time appearing with his jacket buttoned, and managing (alas) to read his speech from the Teleprompter without hyperbolic ad libs, the Donald personifies a major thug, an arrogant bull — Nero, the Mob Boss, the US empire’s top oligarch. No surprise he’s Putin’s pal. They belong to the same grasping billionaire’s club of prancing lawless devils in banal garb who oppress, bully, cheat, lie and rule the corporate globe.

The Russian oligarchy is powerful and rich, like the Donald. Billionaires from any country understand each other; it’s an international exclusive club. Billionaires don’t like to pay taxes; and obsessively want ever more money.

For years Russian billionaires through certain banks (including one partly owned by the billionaire new US commerce Secretary) have invested in Donald’s hotels and towers, probably as a way of laundering money.

So, do the Russian authorities support the Donald? Yes, of course. To say nothing of the Donald’s ability to lift US sanctions on Russia, allowing the new US Secretary of State to fulfill Exxon’s dream of a 500 billion dollar deal. It’s win/win for billionaires all over the world.

So are Russian billionaires, including Putin, likely to have used their power and wealth to tilt the election in the Donald’s favor, using the internet as a cyber-weapon against Hillary Clinton? Yes, of course.

Would that have needed a lot of secret negotiations between the Donald’s campaign and the Russians? Probably not. But it is unconstitutional and a heinous impeachable offense. The Russians are not responsible to the American constitution but the Donald is. Colluding with a foreign power to buy the US presidency surely constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors.”