re: #21 Fozzie Bear

In time, the right wing will crumble under the weight of it’s own stupidity, leaving behind a tattered shell of a political party. People like Frum will be there to rebuild, having not been so tarnished by association with madmen.

Not to go all Godwin or anything, but are there any good sources on people in pre-Nazi Germany who might have been watching the growing Crazy with the same mixture of astonishment, amusement, and creeping dread?

It’s nice to think that we’re too smart or too modern for something like this to spin out of control as badly — surely it will collapse under its own stupidity — but haven’t people been wrong about that in the past?