Trump has filled his administration with sycophantic loyalists instead of highly competent and experienced people. Anyone else worried about this? Why did Republicans in congress confirm them?
It’s almost like a qualified and effective government isn’t his priority.
No one else wants to work with him.
It matters if the boss is an idiot but if most people in an organisation are competent it can limp forward. Probably won’t achieve much of lasting value. These type of populist regimes tend to evaporate as quickly as they arrived.
Because sycophancy is the only quality he requires.
Read Project 2025.
Don’t be so glib. That’s almost 1,000 pages of finely detailed plans, hardly digestible in an evening.
Try this then
Standard dictator bullshit, fucking obviously.
Serious answer: Because they’re sycophants. People call Trump all kinds of names, but the only thing that truly matters is that he’s the poster boy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I invite you all to have a read and get your head around the subject. It explains every single thing about Trump. (Aside from the obvious dementia that’s set in the past 4 years or so.)
To Trump’s mind, anyone who says he’s a great man, is automatically smart and qualified. He had a few great picks first time around, but they crossed him one way or the other and were suddenly dumb and unqualified.
If you’ve never been around a hardcore narcissist, the idea of such a person is truly hard to comprehend. Everyone throws that word around willy nilly, but it’s a diagnosis, with meaning and criteria. For example, people often point out his lies. Obvious, right? But in his mind, he can’t lie. His brain will rearrange contrary facts to mean that someone else was wrong. Back to your question, he requires unquestioning sycophants to satisfy his “never wrong” mentality. Anyone calling him out causes brief cognitive dissonance, and that’s poison to most of us, really hurts, but it’s shear hell for a narcissist. For a minute anyway. :)
As to the confirmations, plenty of Republican lawmakers tanked their careers by so much as seeming to go against Trump, in even the smallest ways. They now have two choices: Ride the tiger they created and hope they can still have some influence, or, defy him and have no influence.
I can expand on that all night long, but that’s the bones of the story.
Uh it was on purpose. You’re rightly concerned about the first point (their competence) with less focus on the second (their ability to lock his nuts). His priorities were the opposite.
And that is why you, my dear internet stranger, have already proven yourself to be a better Presidential candidate than the asshat we got.
I’m not sure why this is so hard to get across everywhere on the internet…
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Gee, I dunno… maybe corruption?
Why did Republicans in congress confirm them?
A better question is…why did so many Democrats confirm them, as well?
As the saying goes “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”. Better these idiots than anyone competent who could cause real damage intentionally.
That’s a great way of looking at it. I’m not sure if it was that or simple cowardice, but I like your interpretation.
Republicans believe that government doesn’t work and they are intent on proving that it doesn’t. 🤔
The same reason foreign policy is currently dependent on his personal relationship with foreign leaders. The show’s all about him in his mind.
Because he is the smartest and best, and he wants it to stay that way
The answer is in the question. They’re sycophants.
And yes. Lots of us are worried about this.
