Continual use of the word “mad” or “insane” in the media today to describe the contemporary political situation, yet few ideas and no coherent theory stating what kind of madness this is.

No theory of the psychopathology of ordinary political and societal life.

Warfare and genocide in the Twentieth Century constituted ordinary political and societal life: Over 200,000,000+ deaths according to the authority on this topic, Rudolph Rummel.

 “MADNESS:” The concluding statement by the British officer (who directed the building of the bridge in The Bridge on the River Kwai as the bridge blows up. 

Ordinary history as extraordinary MADNESS, yet written up as if  “ordinary history.” 

The contribution of Donald Trump: to convey ordinary politics as "madness."