Passenger on Nostr: I don't even mean that it's intended as a distraction. I mean that we're looking at a ...

I don't even mean that it's intended as a distraction. I mean that we're looking at a nihilistic bully who likes violence for its own sake, and the nihilism scares us more than the violence does, so we reassure ourselves by ascribing motivations to him where none exist.

As Umberto Eco wrote about Mussolini and Franco, fascists don't fight for life, they live for fighting. The violence is the point.