What If

What if a puer were elected to the presidency of the United States; a one-time waif who, blessed with a superb mind, carries emotional scars emblematic of personality disorder - "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy."

With the near-limitless resources afforded the office, this person could take revenge on a world that shuffled him hither and yon through out his early childhood, mirroring (he thinks) the carelessness that he himself experienced: tit for tat on a vast scale.

And, as the case usually is, what if his political party is so locked in a doubling rivalry with its mirror party that vast numbers of powerful politicians, brokers, lobbyists, and cronies believe that it is better to follow his lead than admit the emperor has no clothes as the economy of the entire nation crashes and burns?

What if.