Hardly has the grave of President George H.W. Bush settled before one of his most respected lieutenants, William P. Barr, has signed on as a leader of an administration peopled by such zanies and mountebanks as Ben Carson, Rick Perry, Sebastian Gorka, Omarosa, seller-of-toilets-for-well-hung-men acting AG Matthew Whitaker, ex-Peter Rabbit turned press secretary Sean Spicer, and blink-and-you-missed-him comms director The Mooch:
Paul Krugman has the reason:
"Then there’s the Trump effect. Normally working for the president of the United States is a career booster, something that looks good on your résumé. Trump’s presidency, however, is so chaotic, corrupt and potentially compromised by his foreign entanglements that anyone associated with him gets tainted — which is why after only two years he has already left a trail of broken men and wrecked reputations in his wake."So who is willing to serve him at this point? Only those with no reputation to lose, generally because they’re pretty bad at what they do. There are, no doubt, conservatives smart and self-controlled enough to lie plausibly, or at least preserve some deniability, and defend Trump’s policies without making fools of themselves. But those people have gone into hiding."A year ago I pointed out that the Trump administration was turning into government by the worst and the dumbest. Since then, however, things have gotten even worse and even dumber. And we haven’t hit bottom yet."
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