Mike Davis, Thanatos Triumphant — Sidecar

I see stuff like “but what does the new wave of national leaders even have to offer people for the future?”

Not being destroyed

Or at least being relegated down to supporting cast

This was WWII! Germany, Japan, and Italy were the major powers who modernized too late to grab empires from terra nullis, they saw that continuing on cruise control would leave them also-rans so made a gamble

This was how we got Trump. Flight 93 Election, charge the cockpit and you might die but don’t and you definitely will, remember?