re: #220 The Sanity Inspector

I remember a terrible clarity of conviction and purpose coalescing in my mind, and sensing the same thing happening with others.

Definitely. And I also recall an unprecedented amount of later scaling-back on those convictions once people returned to sanity and realized some of them were a bit overblown.

I was suggesting that such “clarity of conviction” could have caused a lack of peripheral vision, that would allow someone advocating concentration camps for American citizens to slip into the mainstream without being called on it.