Over the last 2,000 years, history records that there have been three great experiments in authoritarian government, with each becoming nihilistic and failing. Massive intrusion and chronic inflation eventually collapsed the economy. Shockingly on each, European governing classes granted themselves the privilege of state murder. But control freaks living well as most citizens suffer has inspired benign popular uprisings that brought reform.
And then on November 3rd folk went to bed in America and woke up in Venezuela, which insult cries for reform.
In reviewing the last century of violent politics, the dispassionate observer would conclude there have been two kinds of nihilism. One naive and the other intentionally destructive. Naive would be the earnestness of the first few generations of socialists. Originally, Communists ardently believed that central planners could create the "perfect" man.