To be fair, prior to 2016, I also had an image of Nazis that was more out of Hogan’s Heroes than historical reality. Sure, we had a few of our own, even some in government. But Steve King was never going to amount to anything more than a punchline, right? Grounded in such a ridiculous ideology, how could you not just laugh dismissively at them? But once they start running the show, even though they don’t give you any fewer reasons to laugh dismissively at them, you do so at your peril. They are deadly serious. Oh, they might not fare so well in the next elections, that is certainly true. But there are other ways to take power, and they’re open to all of them, all the time.