Nihilism
From Nick Carraway
How does one expect to get through to people when their rationale for voting for someone is that they get to shove the proverbial middle finger at polite society? That is Charlie Sykes at the Bulwark is postulating in his recent piece. He is actually quoting someone else here but I think most people fully understand the idea.
Simply put, they don’t care about you, them, or even themselves. They could all suffer and could buckle under his lies. It doesn’t matter. In the academic world we have a different word for this: nihilism. I’ll have to dust off my copy of “Fight Club” and dig in.