As author Jennifer Niven reminds us, “People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they're just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don't realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they're shitty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it's like self-defensive shittiness.”

I couldn't help but wonder, yesterday, what it felt like to be- left to right- the *resident's chief economic advisor, Gary Cohn- a Jew; Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin- another Jew; and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao- born in Taiwan, listening to their boss defend white Christian nationalists, the Klan, and the Nazis.

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney- as usual, far right- didn't give two slaps about any of it. He's from South Carolina.