This is what's coming. Yes, there will be awful people like Pete Hegseth elevated beyond their moral scope, but the other thing about Hegseth is that he is cut from the same cloth as Masoud Boulos. He has zero credentials for running anything more than a banana stand.
In Trump's first term, he began with people who were fairly far right, but basically capable of running their departments. Jeff Sessions is a neo-Confederate, but he's a COMPETENT neo-Confederate, in the sense of being able to run the Justice Department. Jim Mattis was a COMPETENT choice to run the Pentagon. Amazingly, even Steven Mnuchin turned out to be able to do his job with some crediblity.
Trump's desire to avoid the "Deep State" by appointing loyalists will lead to the "Derp State" of manifestly unqualified people running important government agencies.
If we are lucky, their incompetence will be the doom of Trump and his allies' plans to dismantle the New Deal, the Great Society and the entire 20th century administrative state.
Still, putting an obvious grifter in charge of something as uncomplicated as the Middle East will, I'm certain, turn out great.
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