I think evil has always had the upper hand in history, in some way or another. We didn’t get to this point on the backs of our best people.

What makes this new era so weird is that the bad guys have won so hard that it’s begun to trickle down to the stupidest, least creative, most inept evils in our society. They used to be the fodder we chewed through as a society to distract from the worse stuff higher up the chain.

Evil used to be clever.