When the purveyors of Nazism and Fascism radicalized their followers, it was with a simple declaration: the nature of the world is brutality, and it is past time to accept that awful fact and wield it like a weapon.

Jared Yates Sexton

It's Meant To Grind You Down: Authoritarianism Feeds Off Despair,

Dispatches From A Collapsing State