Once again, the cruelty is the whole damn point.
Today's Republican Party and "conservative" movement are committed to what has been described as "sado-politics," meaning a political worldview and strategy in which causing pain, misery, death and other suffering is both a means to win power and control and also a goal in and of itself. Sado-politics is also an extension and reflection of fascism, authoritarianism and other forms of illiberal and corrupt power.
