re: #92 Anymouse

And this is different from the past how?

It’s significantly different. Whatever else you may say about them, William F. Buckley, John McLaughlin, and other successful conservative standard bearers of the 50’s to 90’s were not con men. Now cognitive bias has overwhelmed the political right so terribly that people without even a thin patina of respectability or intellectual integrity have become leading figures who are taken seriously and have access to the highest circles of power.