in the four years of donny's first term the fifteen cabinet level offices from secretary of state to secretary of homeland security saw twenty office holders and twenty-three "acting" secretaries between the offical secretaries...by comparison barak obama's two terms saw thirty-two office holders and no "acting" secretaries over the eight years...trump had four national security advisors of whom john bolton lasted longest at one year and one hundred fifty-four days while michael flynn lasted twenty-four days and sandwiched in there were two "acting" national security advisors...in two terms barak obama had three...this does not touch on white huse staff or ambassadors however it does remind me that there was considerable friction and turnover among those donny appointed and then, at times, quickly wearied of...one presumes donny's fundamental intolerance for not getting his way or for hearing what he does not want to hear has not receded in the interim...we could see project 2025 dissolve into a behavioral sump of infighting bickering backstabbing and unalloyed sycophancy...to steal one of tacitus' descriptions of the reign of tiberius..."it was a tainted meanly obsequious age"...one could hope to find a spine or two in congress...unlikely as that is....there won't be one in the white house...at least not for long.
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