Book Review: Political Ponerology

Crucially, Łobaczewski emphasizes that this process is rarely recognized by the majority, who unwittingly become complicit by adopting the language, values, and behaviors of the pathological minority because, again, all this is communicated in the language of compassion—and most folks want to be good people.

This explains the modern rise of evil chic and the pattern among woke leftists of cheering on the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, the psychopathic dictator Vladimir Lenin, or the murderer Luigi Mangione.