Nov. 16, 2016
The "Best" People ... The Clockwork Orange Cure ... Whether by Malice or Ineptitude
The nascent Trump administration seems hellbent on choosing the worst, most suspect and unqualified people possible to run the executive branch. This is the antithesis of a meritocracy—a parade of anti-intellectuals who don't believe in climate change despite virtually unanimous agreement from scientists worldwide that we are facing a possible doomsday scenario in the next 70 years, who believe electroshock therapy, drugs and gay porn can be applied Clockwork Orange-style to cure homosexuality, anti-semitic white-supremacist propagandists, authoritarians with no respect for the Constitution, warhawks, creationists, opportunists, corporate stooges tied to the last major financial crisis, Sarah Palin speeding south through Canada on her snow machine, headed straight for Washington DC...
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