As I said earlier today, my sister and I were trying to figure out the Trump support conundrum and I suggested it’s sort of like mass psychosis.
Neither of us knows whether it is possible.
But poets and philosophers do. I just picked up this quote from Nietzsche in a reader’s comment to today’s NYT Roger Cohen column:
“In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”
By the way, Nietzsche himself went mad.