i think what we are seeing is unbridled psychopathy waging war against the majority of pro-social people. that is what fascism really is.

" a thief belives that everybody steals," and so it goes that a psychopath believes that everybody else only does anything for selfish motives, or at least they will say as much as means to divide and conquer

if humanity is to survive, we have to find a way to regulate these anti-social disorders out of positions of influence and power

"I think what we are seeing is unbridled psychopathy..."

I've often had basically this EXACT thought! That fascism, and so many of societies ailments, are so clearly rooted deep shades of the Antisocial Personality Disorder spectrum playing out at a social level. And that if we had the will to spend even a little bit of time fairly early in school educating our youth about it, the risks, the harms, the benefits to the individual and society as a whole of leaning away from such base tendencies, society might look very different for a great many people.