Could you clarify? I don&#x27;t understand the extreme reaction.<p>I was responding to this: &quot;hold both views simultaneously: to respect someone and consider him&#x2F;her an extremist loon who is out of touch with reality&quot;<p>I gave an example of someone generally considered to be an extremist loon, yet obviously (he did in fact gain power) with unusual skill.<p>Is it just that people are uncomfortable with the idea that his supporters were normal regular supposedly civilized people, and how this implies something about most of us?