Trump's cabinet picks aren't just 'loyalists'. They're groveling, subservient yes-men | Robert Reich

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : Elise Stefanik, whom Trump has nominated to be US ambassador to the United Nations, repeatedly boasted that she was the first lawmaker to endorse Trump's re-election bid.
55% : Mike Waltz, whom Trump has picked for national security adviser, supported a move in Congress to rename Washington Dulles international airport the "Donald J Trump international airport".
51% : Every one of his nominees campaigned for these jobs by engaging in conspicuous displays of submission and flattery directed toward Trump.
51% : Trump didn't find these people; these people found Trump.
48% : All politicians want their underlings to be loyal, but Trump wants them to be more loyal to him than to the nation, and he demands total subservience without regard to right or wrong.
48% : All knew that Trump wanted people who would do whatever he asked of them.
46% : The coming years will be even more perilous because unprincipled enablers have sought out Trump.
44% : How many Americans would publicly grovel before Trump, making it clear they'll do whatever he asks of them regardless of consequence?To be a member of this unique group, one needs to be both colossally ambitious and profoundly insecure, willing to demean oneself to gain Trump's favor.
43% : Time and again they have performed acts of cringeworthy subservience toward Trump, proving themselves reliable conduits for his scheming vindictiveness.
40% : All knew that Trump liked to be fawned over.
39% : Before Trump tapped Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security, she sent him a 4ft replica of Mount Rushmore with Trump's face next to those of Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln.
35% : Stephen Miller, who will be a Trump White House adviser, said during a Fox News interview that Trump is the "most stylish president" in our lifetimes.
32% : Moreover, Trump didn't recruit these people or anybody else.
30% : They knew that Trump wanted people lacking an independent moral compass.
30% : The years ahead would be dangerous enough if Trump sought out unprincipled enablers.
15% : Some of Trump's picks showed up at his criminal trial in Manhattan, where they verbally attacked members of the presiding judge's family on behalf of Trump, who was under a rule of silence.
12% : Trump's selection for attorney general, Pam Bondi, has said that when Trump returns to power, "the prosecutors will be prosecuted".
6% : The conventional view is they're "Trump loyalists" whom Trump "recruited".Rubbish.
4% : For the FBI, Trump has picked Kash Patel, who has pledged to prosecute Trump's political opponents and "come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig the presidential election".
3% : Lee Zeldin, whom Trump has picked for EPA administrator, said publicly that the criminal prosecutions of Trump were akin to Putin's persecution of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

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