“epic unforeseen unintended consequences”
I think you’ve nailed it. Add to that hubris. I think all the power has gone to their heads. They have become blinded by what they like to think of as their success. They think the tiger is asleep. They are going to be surprised when they get bitten.
Zero despised his so-termed ‘bitter clingers’ in his ‘08 campaign, yet creates millions of new ones before he’s inauged into second term?