Will Bunch: The real reason Trump picked a sex fiend, dog killer, and anti-vaxxer for his Cabinet

[Nevilledog]

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-cabinet-gaetz-rfk-gabbard-20241117.html?id=GlcsMNuxeRajN&utm_source=social&utm_campaign=gift_link&utm_medium=referral


It sounds strange, but the words that best explain the insanity that’s happening in American politics right now were uttered way back in 2004 — a simpler time when George W. Bush had just lied his way into a deadly and senseless war, and most of us lacked the imagination that things were about to get even worse than that.

It’s the famous anonymous quote from a top Bush aide (possibly Karl Rove, although he denies it) to journalist Ron Susskind explaining that the “reality-based community” of journalists and others who clung to an old world order around objective truths failed to understand how America wielded power in the 21st century.

‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality,” the Bush aide told Susskind. “And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study, too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

In 2024, moving rapidly to cement what the media is calling a mandate even after more than half the electorate voted for someone else, Donald Trump and his inner circle have pushed the button for a shock-and-awe bombardment of America’s political psyche with mostly outrageous Cabinet nominations. It’s a rogues’ gallery which in some cases could never pass an FBI background check, and which in almost every case supports ideas or holds values that are 180 degrees opposed to the missions of the federal agencies they would lead as soon as January.

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1. "More than half of the electorate voted for someone else"

Media needs to amplify this.