For the same reason that Hoover would have had a fair chance of winning in the summer of 1930, had there been an election then and not in 1932.

We haven't seen 20 % real unemployment in Europe yet. When we do (and we will if we keep electing far-right lunatics), there'll be a landslide. Either to the left or to the even farther right.

Our job is to make sure that the neo-Nazis (whatever their guises) are whacked rather firmly over the head whenever they show up. As long as we can do that - and keep doing that - things'll break our way eventually.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.