“We are living through the total institutional collapse of the West at this very moment. People are scared, they’re desperately looking for answers, and they know for certain that they cannot get them from the mainstream institutions that have failed them so miserably. This horrifying Orwellian milieu is empowering nutjobs, grifters, con artists, weirdos, freaks, and creeps to co-opt large followings on social media and elsewhere. To play devil’s advocate, could they really do worse than the special interests behind the Republican establishment right now?”