Thursday, November 17, 2016

11/8: The Fall of the Great Republic

-Steven K. Bannon, alt-right minister of hate, chief White House strategist.
-Senator Jeffrey Sessions, racist, maybe Attorney General, some cabinet position.
-Lt. General Michael T. Flynn (ret.(actually, fired)), Putin sycophant, National Security Advisor.
-Jared Kushner, son-in-law (violation of anti-nepotism laws), some White House advisory position.
-Rudolph Giuliani, famed cross-dresser, Secretary of State.

The country will get in President-select Donald J. Trump exactly what Donald Trump offered during the campaign: a megalomaniacal sexual predator chief executive with the same "weird assortment of misfits,"  and "crack pots," as advisors, "such are the men" Trump has "gathered around him...for his drive to become dictator of a nation which had given the world a [Martin] Luther [King]," a Washington, a Lincoln, a Roosevelt, an Obama.(1)

1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer pp 39, 50, on Adolph Hitler's lieutenants.