They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness

From The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Tom and Daisy are the political establishment and their enablers who are being voted against by the electorates around the world. Good intentions and pathological altruism are no substitute for competence and respect for the needs and values of the great middle.