Pure malevolence
A few days into the president’s first term, his new executive orders banning certain foreigners from entering the United States were described by Lawfare founder Benjamin Wittes as a case of “malevolence tempered by incompetence.”
In many ways, there’s less incompetence in Trump 2.0; a bunch of the tribe formerly known as conservatives have become ass-kissers and co-conspirators, looking for legal loopholes with some success.
But the malevolence remains, in saecula saeculorum (that’s “forever,” you jack- and jenny-asses in the White House faith office).