Germany’s conspiracy-fuelled coup plot shouldn’t be laughed off
The details of the coup attempt sound comical at first.
That the plot had little chance of succeeding is not the point. The point, rather, is what this signals about the susceptibility of certain sections of the public to far-right conspiracy theories and the growing threat this poses, not just in Germany but across the democracies. These are not essentially rational, if misguided, people with explicable causes and intelligible demands. Neither are they, for the most part, insane, in the literal psychotic sense. They are, as I have written before, sane people who have been persuaded to believe entirely insane things.
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