“First they ignore you,” warned trade union organiser Nicholas Klein over a century ago at a conference of garment workers in Baltimore, Maryland. “Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. Then they build monuments to you.”
Having been largely ignored for most of the last decade, with the election of ‘eco-populist’ Zack Polanski last year the Green Party advanced to the ‘ridicule’ phase of Klein’s formulation; until recently most of the attacks against him were flippant, focusing on
an article published over a decade ago while he was working as a therapist, in which it was reported that he offered a service to enlarge women’s breasts using hypnotherapy.
