“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
What could be more clear?
What we have seen demonstrated in the past half year go far beyond anything that can be adequately explained by incompetence, stupidity, or neglect.
I'm voting for "malice".