Good grief. Listening to the president earlier to day. Using the 'battered wife' analogy, it was like he was blaming the wife for running into his fist.
If government is a husband, then it’s the abusive husband who beats the wife within an inch of her life, leaving her with bruises all over her body, and when her friend suggests that she leave him, she goes out of her way to defend him. “Oh, he only hurts me because he loves me!” Stockholm syndrome at its worst.