There's that moment in so much fiction when the villain tells the hero that empathy makes them weak and it's why they'll lose, and apparently 40 percent of our country sees that and thinks, "You know, Syndrome makes some good points there."
Nicholas GrossmanMillions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.