I was just remarking the other day of the danger one particularly self-righteous man can present to many. There was the guy who advocated zealously against sepa

I was just remarking the other day of the danger one particularly self-righteous man can present to many. There was the guy who advocated zealously against separating bike and car traffic, for years, resulting in untold numbers of dead cyclists. There was the guy who advocated zealously for work search reqs as a condition of receiving unemployment, robbing millions of the opportunity to reskill after being fired or laid off. There was the guy who flipped dozens of state houses by planting lies about his party's opponents. There was Richard Nixon and his waves hands vaguely. This kind of person doesn't even necessarily lead a movement or anything of that sort. He is simply loud, and single-minded, and shrewd about couching his disastrous visions in terms that the go-along-to-get-along majority find agreeable enough to outweigh the discomfort of confronting him.