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 Alleged child sex predator Matt Gaetz will not be Attorney General. Instead, corrupt Trumpist loyalist Pan Bondi will take the job. She has, perhaps, some technical competence and isn't an actual predator. She is awful and unconfirmable in a sane world, given her solicitation and acceptance of bribes to short circuit the case against Trump University.  Bondi is corrupt in the usual sense of the world and the way that we should come to expect from the next four years. 

Hurray!

Still, Gaetz was sunk within a single Scaramucci, and that's slightly encouraging sign. I am beginning to wonder about the feasibility of Pete Hegseth, too, given the multiple - it's always multiple - allegations of sexual violence swirling around this guy. Hell, there might even be a faction of Republicans who choke on Tulsi Gabbard. Some still care about national security.

There is a debilitating habit of ascribing to Trump some sort of next level political genius that he simply does not possess. He's apparently a pretty good salesman, but chaos and dysfunction are his managerial style. Nominating Gaetz was an example of this feral maelstrom. Hegseth, too. In fact, he seems to simply prefer the people he sees on the TeeVee. He's a mushbrained, TV-addicted chaos agent. The Gaetz debacle is a good example of how the incompetence of his minions and himself are the ultimate anchor restraining his plans to end democracy. His whittling his House Majority down to one or two votes is another.

What's more, the handful of Anti-Anti-Trump Republicans who don't like him, but won't break too much with him publicly, now have a scalp. 

Josh Marshall proposes a "scoreboard" of economic indicators to keep track of the economy. It's a good idea to center easily understandable data in real time, rather than waiting for the election season when people's minds might very well have been made up. We saw this with people who thought the economy was shitty in 2023 and never really updated their beliefs as the economy improved. 

I'd add a scoreboard of corruption allegations and Cabinet turnover. Accent the chaos of Trumpistan. The singular problem on the Center Left right now is exhaustion. We thought we were done with this mook and yet... 

So flip the tables. Hammer, hammer, hammer on the corruption and chaos.