At least Weimar had the Great War as an excuse to fall apart. What alibi is there for the current moral collapse?
The best show on television right now features a major city, the capital of an unsteady government, that is gradually being pulled apart by two competing political parties. The center can’t hold; it’s being steadily overwhelmed by a pair of rival Socialist groups who don’t hesitate to take their conflicts into the streets as they sweep away their country’s past and head into a glorious future.
Washington, D.C., in 2021? No, Berlin in the late 1920s.