疯狂的政体

It is hard to believe that the tremendous ordeal through which the nation is being put will fail to produce at least one spectacularly successful leader. The stage is too perfectly set, the time too ripe, for us to escape the irruption of a “Mad Mullah” of some variety. The fabrication of a sufficiently crazy program always takes a little time after a great crash. Populism, distilled from the witches’ brew of 1893, only attained its full strength closer to the end of the century. Greenbackism, engendered in 1873, made its strongest bid a few years later. …