ARTICLE AD BOX
"If Trump gets his way, we will have a defender of war criminals as Secretary of Defense, a Russian lackey as Director of National Intelligence, a criminal running the Department of Justice, and a crank promoter of quack remedies in charge of Health and Human Services.
"This is a negation of government, an act of nihilism directed at the central function of each of our government’s agencies. ...
"It’s not just that Trump has reserved his worst nominees for the things I regard as legitimate and necessary functions of government—defense, intelligence, law-enforcement, even disease control. It’s that he doesn’t seem to be trying to reduce the power of government, but rather to abuse it in the way he prefers. ... a cabinet of nihilists who will be loyal to him not their jobs. ...
"It is a mistake to think that authoritarian leaders want to strengthen government. To the contrary, they want to weaken government’s institutions. They want an unstructured government, one without rules and procedures, so as to leave fewer impediments to their whims. That is the point of Trump’s anti-government: to provide more scope for the exercise of arbitrary and capricious power."
~ Robert Tracinski from his post 'The Trump Administration Will Be the Government’s Evil Twin'
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