Tony Blair agrees with us. How unexpected is that? In an article in the Observer this week he points out that the rise of Jeremy Corbyn is about the same thing as the rise of Trump, the SNP, Le Pen and Syriza.
They might look like they are demanding different things but they nonetheless reflect a post financial crisis fury. There is, says Blair, a "politics of parallel reality going on in which reason is an irritation, evidence a distraction, emotional impact is king and the only thing that counts is feeling good about it all."
This is a pretty good summary of what I saw in Yes voters during the Scottish referendum and it sums up the hype around Corbyn nicely too. But Blair then goes on to make a mistake.
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This rebellion against perceived authority isn't really one, he says "it doesn't alter the real reality". Trump won't be president. Scotland voted no. Syriza can only hang on by "switching realities" and "Jeremy Corbyn is not going to be prime minister of the UK."
This is where he is wrong. Scotland voted no, but the SNP is still in power in Scotland and still mucking up the running of Scotland. And Jeremy Corbyn could well become PM of the UK.
How? With a crisis. What, asks Charles Moore in the Telegraph, if the trouble in China is the start of something bigger, or if the Conservatives "fall to quarrelling" over the referendum as the refugee crisis worsens? It wouldn't take much for the "Tory hegemony, currently only three months old" to slip away.
Things aren't good out there, what with the money printing, debt, deflation and effects of an ageing population: "will our moderate and sane government really know what to do when the next jolt to the system comes?" Maybe not.
And then there will be an "electoral market for the immoderate and insane" politics on offer on the other side.
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