MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY--UPDATED
Informative overview of some of the names being floated (some we mentioned the other day, many less ridiculous, and some even more egregious). The most striking thing is how many come out of the Republican establishment that predates Trump, including his Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. That may prove salutary. The prospect of the corrupt Ken Paxton as Attorney General, however, is appalling, and it's possible that might even be too much for some Republican Senators. Some of the Treasury Secretary possibilities are fairly normal members of the ruling class, who at least understand the literal monetary value of not crashing the system; some others are cranks, like Larry Kudlow. What we do not yet know is to what extent Republican Senators will force Trump to pull back from the crazies and corrupt.
UPDATE: Longtime reader Roger Albin, a neurologist at the University of Michigan, writes with some very interesting observations:
It’s likely the Trump administration will see a version of what historians of the Nazi state described as “working towards the Fuhrer.” Trump is a notoriously poor manager but his chaotic style allows him to pit subordinates against each other and avoid taking responsibility. The Trump administation will be a polycracy, much more so than the usual Presidential administrations, with factions competing for his attention and approval. As with the Nazis, this is likely to lead to a race to moral bottom when competing for Trump’s favor. What I suspect is his more than incipient dementia will likely exacerbate this process.
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