Thanks to Becka's morbid curiosity, I have now seen that horrible video of interviews at a College Republican event. Max Blumenthal isn't the most interesting reporter ever - unfortunately he sounds like kind of a teenage Michael Moore with a bad hangover - but the people he talks to still parody themselves pretty well, and they are a pretty stupid and scary crew.

B's reaction was "oh man, we are so fucked"... but I don't know if there are really more of these guys than there used to be, or just enough to replace the ones who are currently in power & getting old - or, I hope, not quite enough. Digby calls this "a kind of finishing school for dorky political sociopaths" and there will probably always be plenty of those (as long as "political" just means willing to kiss ass for power, and not any real interest in governance), but I hope there won't always be such an effective racket for making use of them.