Don’t get me wrong, [the 2012 GOP primary is] a fun sideshow, but I don’t believe it says anything about the country other than that working democracy is like making haggis, in that you really don’t want to see what goes into that shit. It does say a lot about the state of the GOP, and I can’t help but wonder if the party moderates are just letting this parade of mental patients and unelectable criminals simply happen, so that they can detoxify the party after the inevitable firestorm of failure.
Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America — as usual, Warren Ellis nails it.

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