In nature a pride of lions is dominated by a small coalition of alpha males. The alphas literally fight their way to the top — sometimes by deposing ageing incumbents, sometimes by fighting other young males when their predecessors die.
Nature is cruel, and one of the things newly-installed alpha males do is systematically kill all the cubs sired by the previous leaders. This instinctive behaviour destroys the legacy of the previous leaders.
The very same animal instincts are driving decisions in the current American White House. Any legacy inherited from the previous president is choked off torn to shreds — just like an alpha lion chokes and shreds the cubs under his care, regardless of the contribution those cubs might make to the pride. The alpha lion’s instincts are “If it isn’t mine, mine, mine — it’s useless.”
