In one of the most perceptive gags in one of the best television comedies of all time, “Arrested Development,” the effete therapist Tobias Fünke tells his wife Lindsay that he has advised several unhappily married clients to pursue open relationships.

Did it work, she asks. “No,” he says with a dismissive laugh. “It never does. I mean these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but….” He turns to Lindsay and continues with confidence, “But it might work for us!”

This is the apparent thought process of every person, in and out of politics, who attempts to form a stable partnership with President Donald Trump.

Laughing or crying

It’s a testament to the irresistible allure of power, and to the durability of hubris in the human psyche, that people continue to delude the

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