With these outrageous appointments, Trump is showing us exactly how he intends to rule | Jonathan Freedland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : In 2008 he said, "there's really no such thing as a Palestinian".All of which makes you wonder how those many Arab and Muslim American voters in Michigan and elsewhere, persuaded that Trump had to be a better option for the Palestinians than Kamala Harris, feel now.
38% : As director of national intelligence, overseeing 18 separate intelligence agencies including the CIA and NSA, Trump has turned to Tulsi Gabbard, a fringe Democratic congresswoman before she defected to the Republicans, best known for meeting Bashar al-Assad while the Syrian dictator was busy slaughtering hundreds of thousands of his own people, and for parroting Kremlin talking points.
38% : Others wonder if it's part of a dark, deliberate strategy, by which Trump, the agent of chaos, appoints those who are not so much disruptors as wreckers, men and women who can be relied on to make the agencies they lead collapse in failure.
34% : Some hope it's no more than an opening bid by Trump, the arch-negotiator: offer the Senate something obviously unacceptable, then haggle from there.
32% : Trump knows that a character as tawdry as Gaetz, despised by his own colleagues, would owe everything to him.
30% : At least the RFK nod was not a surprise: Trump had long said he wanted to let Kennedy "go wild" with the nation's health.
29% : Gaetz is chum, thrown into the water to satisfy the piranhas, so that Trump can quietly ensure his other nominees get through.
26% : Few things tell you more about a president than their hires - personnel is policy, as they used to say in Ronald Reagan's White House - and Trump is telling us exactly who he is.
19% : In this view, Trump knows that Gaetz will never be attorney general, that his nomination will be blocked in the Senate where, even though the Republicans have a majority, too many will balk.
9% : As attorney general, he would do whatever Trump asked, working his way through Trump's enemies list, prosecuting whoever had crossed his boss, delivering the retribution Trump yearns for.

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