"Every age gets the lunatics it deserves"

13 January 2021: I read this quotation (from British historian Roy Porter) in Why Fish Don't Exist, by Lulu Miller, which I am working my way through. It sort of stopped me in my tracks, thinking about what that means for this moment, with an unhinged president and so many people willing to support him. On the other hand, he just got impeached again, so at least the sane continue to outnumber the lunatics.