[madmominct]

“Too late. They drank the kool aid,”

“The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.”

― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.”

So apt.