The sometimes-truth is that we are interested in and, yes, even attracted to bad people. When the latest news comes out and we’re all aflutter with outrage, we’re ignoring a truth: Part of the reason so much attention has been trained on men like Picasso and Hemingway is exactly because they’re assholes. We are excited by their asshole-ness. Wasn’t that what we saw with Trump? We kept pointing out, over and over: This guy is an asshole. And of course that was what people loved about him in the first place.
