Incompetence of Trump's Cabinet is the whole point
By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist
It was predictable that Donald Trump would select unquestioning loyalists for his cabinet and other impactful positions.
People who’d carry out his demands, no matter how damaging to the republic. People who applaud and will facilitate his need for revenge against all who’ve criticized him, who’ll bend to his desire to dismantle parts of government that he can’t use to his advantage.
Their other lodestar, after submissive prostration, will be “sticking it to the libs.” Because that, above all else, is what maintains support from the base, undisturbed if their own interests are betrayed as long as they can imagine liberals shedding tears. Assuming they considered their own interests, which, it appears, they haven’t. Not the sub-millionaires, anyway.
More surprising is the level of disqualifying incompetence of most of his choices. Surely there were adequately sycophantic yes-people with at least a minimum of experience in the fields over which they’d have control. Instead, we get Matt Gaetz, universally hated in Congress, with reason, as attorney general; weekend Fox couch-dweller Pete Hegseth, who left the National Guard after being barred from protecting the capital during President Biden’s inauguration because he was deemed a possible “insider threat” (MSN: tinyurl.com/2inside4u); Tulsi Gabbard, zeroly experienced in intelligence matters and referred to in Russia as “our girlfriend” for her enthusiastic support of Vladimir Putin (and Syria’s murderous Bashar al-Assad), as Director of National Intelligence (MSN: tinyurl.com/tulsi4russia).
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