Charlie Sykes: How the Right Lost It's Mind

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

Charles Mackay

As Thomas Frank is to the Democratic Party, Charlie Sykes is to the Republicans.

I have been no fan of Charlie, but he seems to have come to some very pointed observations worth hearing.

The GOP did not lose their minds—  they sold their souls for power and money.

But the real tragedy is that so did the Democratic establishment.

And then there is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that no one dares discuss—  the corrupting power of big money in politics, and in darn near everything else downstream, until thought itself dies by suicide, either from expedient convenience, or embarrassment.

Those among us who have for whatever reason remained relatively aloof from this madness, who follow a different way, wonder if they have changed, or if things have changed just that much around them.

But however it has occurred, increasingly they find themselves to be in this world but not of it, as if visitors, almost at times like strangers, in a stranger and stranger land.