Sometimes I think about these lines from Richard Hofstadter’s the paranoid style in american politics:
However, in a populistic culture like ours, which seems to lack a responsible elite with political and moral autonomy, and in which it is possible to exploit the wildest currents of public sentiment for private purposes, it is at least conceivable that a highly organized, vocal, active, and well–financed minority could create a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well–being and safety would become impossible.
And I think, welp.