One of the most difficult things to understand is how a parent can poison or starve her own child just so, in tandem with a host of medical and surgical assistants, she can then "save" the life of the poor victim. Yet any number of these cases have been identified, most often by setting up a video camera and checking what happens when no-one seems to be watching. It's called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, named after a man who gained a reputation for outrageous fictions.
More and more it's beginning to look like our President has taken a page out of Munchausen's book. Or perhaps several. While the claim to be trying to "save Social Security" resembles nothing so much as an over-wrought mother dragging her child from pillar to post, other efforts to undermine or destroy the nation's social institutions are only just, as they say in the media, "developing."
The effort to do away with independent judges is a little further along than the attack on the United Nations in the person of the nominee John Bolton. But, there doesn't seem to be any widespread recognition that "reform" is really a code word for "destroy."
Parents who harm their children in order to "save" them are assumed do so for the attention they get. What the President and his cronies get out of trying to destroy our nation's institutions may be nothing more than the sensation of power that comes from knowing that they can.
Now that's scarey.