I remember watching an interview with David Oldfield of One Nation some time ago, and thinking that he was suave, well spoken, charismatic, sophisticated and charming - and mad as a cut snake. It occured to me at the time that that’s probably exactly how someone like Hitler had managed to get the popular support he did, and that it was time to stop One Nation before we went down the same path again. I think that we were quite lucky that it was the politically naive Hanson and not Oldfield leading that party, but in the end the Howard government was willing to do their dirty work under the guise of a less radical conservatism. And now that we appear to have a more reasonable government, it is no time to let our guard down.