The targeting of enemies - minorities, liberals, secularists, lefttists, urban naxals, intellectuals, assorted protestors - is not driven by a calculus of ordinary politics...

When you legitimize yourself entirely by inventing enemies the truth ceases to matter, normal restraints of civilization and decency cease to matter, the checks and balances of normal politics cease to matter.

- Pratab Bhanu Mehta, "JNU violence reflects an apocalyptical politics driven by a constant need to find new enemies.", The Indian Express, January 7, 2020.

I got this quote from Jason Stanley's book How Fascism Works, the Politics of Us and Them.