The question nobody seems to have an answer to is, “Why?”

1. Is it that (…) Trump’s been a Russian agent for decades and is setting us up to lose to the newly-forming Axis of Russia and China?
2. Is it that he spent so many years burning with rage and embarrassment at not being accepted by New York high society that he’s just come to hate America?
3. Could it be that American-values-hating foreign powers that have poured literally billions of dollars into the Trump family are paying him to tear us apart so they’ll never again have to endure the humiliation of having their human, civil, and women’s rights records called out by a future administration?
4. Is it possible it’s all just to pay for tax cuts for billionaires?
5. Or are his, Vance’s, and Musk’s white supremacist, Christian nationalist, libertarian, and/or neo-Nazi ideologies so intense that they’re willing to essentially burn the country down just to expel immigrants, deny benefits to people of color, elevate the rich, crush unions, and re-subordinate women?

Trump’s personal motives aside, I think it’s mostly #4, but it goes a little further than just tax cuts: certain people who pay MAGA a lot of money want to abolish any form of a functioning state in favor of their vision of corporate entities ruling the land.

PS: the articke doesn’t have an answer either.