<And the most successful parasites are always those which can alter their host environment to be more amenable to themselves, and if you’re a parasite taking the form of a bad idea, that means hijacking your host’s rationality.>

After reading this, I thought, damn he just described the current administration. Then I kept reading and saw:

<It all led, inexorably, to Trump.>

Yeah(!), I think I'm gonna bookmark that site and reread it a few more times.