My Prediction.

[usonian]

8. It might be even simpler.

People don't like "a loser".

Heck, the gentle people of San Francisco are up in arms about losing 5 baseball games in a row!

And karma sometimes works in absolutely mysterious ways.

All the long delays that his lawyers fought for (and that's all they won) are prolonging the agony of one who bought his way out of every jam, and into the White House. He ran into one system that he couldn't buy, and he and his flunkies tried mightily to do so with court appointments.

There are many parallels in literature for flawed people who fail to recognize and deal with their weaknesses, who let an "idea" transfix them into misanthropic behavior. It's pretty much the true definition of tragedy.

"The Man Who Would Be King" showed the ultimate weakness: being a serial loser, one that can't be forgiven.