SHOT: “But you don’t get Hitler because of Hitler. There are always potential Hitlers out there. You get Hitler because of Weimar, and you get Weimar because the people charged with maintaining a liberal polity are too corrupt and incompetent — or crazy — to maintain a liberal polity.”

Chaser: Germany Is Being Served Up on a Platter to the Far Right: On the unintended consequences of anti-nuclear zealotry.

Though the sensible prescriptions the “far right” is offering — mostly clean cheap energy and an end to unrestricted immigration by foreigners with no desire to assimilate peacefully — is hardly worthy of comparison to Hitler, or Nehemiah Scudder.