MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH: “Are we at another Weimar moment now?”

The 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent global recession were nowhere nearly as painful as the Great Depression. But the effects are similar. The heady growth of the 2000s led Europeans and Americans to believe they were on firm economic ground; the shattering of banks, real estate markets and governments in the wake of the crash left tens of millions of people at sea, angry at the institutions that had failed them, above all the politicians who claimed to be in charge.

Why, voters ask, did the government allow so many bankers to behave like criminals in the first place?

The New York Times won’t like the answer, and the couple at the center of it:

Another answer the New York Times won’t much like — as Allan Bloom noted in the Closing of the American Mind, America’s been in a “Weimar Moment” for quite some time.