5 Feet of Fury

Obama, Warren + fake ID follies: My NEW piece at Taki’s

Here’s an excerpt:

Long ago, crazy people at least had the good sense to pretend they were heroes.

Asylums were packed with dueling Napoleons.

Rival Jesuses (Jesuii?) challenged each other to miracle-working matches in the sunroom.

Almost everything wrong with society today can be traced back to the 1960s. The erosion of lunatic self-deception from distinguished to pedestrian is no exception.

Delusions of grandeur went the way of men’s fedoras, replaced with pantomimes of insignificance.

It’s easier to fake being a loser than a winner. And so the victim-hero was born. (…)

Surely the perpetrators of such elaborate deceptions must be deeply troubled, if not downright crazy.

So what happens when these “crazy” people are running the country?

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