Answer:
they feared appearing weak in the eyes of his domestic political opponents
Explanation:
It is an imaginary transformer which has no core loss, no ohmic resistance and no leakage flux. The ideal transformer has the following important characteristic. The resistance of their primary and secondary winding becomes zero. The core of the ideal transformer has infinite permeability.
This of course depends entirely on the person in question, but generally speaking people who believe in such things would want to come back as animals somewhere at the "top" of the food chain.
