This teaching turned the moral universe upside-down, creating today’s world, which prizes equality, fairness, and democracy above greatness. Nietzsche was utterly convinced that this world was on the verge of collapse and deserved to be replaced by a new order — one in which, with his considerable help, the strong would once again justly rule.

From his ranting against the idiocy of the country’s citizens and politicians, to his vicious denunciations of Mexican immigrants (surely the politically weakest people living in our midst), to his chest-thumping proclamations of his own self-evident fabulousness, Trump makes it abundantly clear that he views the world through a thoroughly Nietzschean lens.

The outlook even permeates his frequently insulting comments about women (also known as “fat pigs,” “dogs,” slobs,” and “disgusting animals”). As Maureen Dowd recounted in a recent column, “[Trump] once told me, ‘Certain guys tell me they want women of substance, not beautiful models. It just means they can’t get beautiful models.'” A more Nietzschean statement has never been uttered: The ugly resent losing out in the competition for beautiful women and then treat their failure as a sign of their own superior virtue.