EVIL AND STUPID PARTIES SWITCH ROLES, MOSTLY Not for the first time in US history, the evil and stupid parties have changed places. Being in power seems to be a major cause of this. Generally speaking, the Democrats were pretty good down to 1896. Then they made a turn toward the regulatory state. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee in 1896, was at least in favor of staying out of wars, whatever might be said about his half-baked economic views. Nor was he quite the ignorant fundamentalist portrayed in cartoons like Inherit the Wind – or the one drawn by … Continue reading Observations on the Present Folly