"We are not Germany in 1933. But we may be Munich, 1923. On 8 November of that year, a couple of thousand Nazis staged a failed putsch to topple the Weimar Republic. Ten years later the same ins… (View Post)

Whatever the difference in suffering, images are almost everything our society. That image of the Capitol swept round like a burning cauldron of crowds, like a renaissance painting, or the man standi… (View Post)

It very much can. A week to ten days ago, the proportion of Daily Mail comments that the coronavirus was a plot against civil liberties, and hospitals were empty, was hovering around 50%. Many of the… (View Post)

That sums up some of the current problems in a nutshell. (View Post)

The thing is, there does seem to have been a genuine moment of coup potential. Trump did not call in the national guard, and was apparently crediting police support. Both farce and deadly, lethal ser… (View Post)