sadism

A mob forms to target an innocent and often helpless victim, and the members of the mob draw on each other's energy to justify their sadism and turn it into entertainment.

Trump and his agents are experts at political sadism, trauma, and cruelty.

Both awkward and stumbling through self-worth, initially depending on the affections of a wealthy white man, Frida becomes the object of King’s sadism.

The Harris-Walz message of "joy" is a counterpoint to what Trump is offering, which is an endless barrage of anger, despair, nihilism, and sadism.

She nixed adultery, group sex, sadism, incest and sex at too tender an age.