Subject: The Perverse Preserve
"I have come to realize that normal language is inadequate and precedents are irrelevant when it comes to appraising President Trump’s cabinet and other senior administration officials. Trump didn’t just hire incompetent people. He didn’t just hire lickspittles. He visited some perverse preserve of the morally degenerate — some superstore of grifters and goons — and said, “I’ll take the worst of the worst. A baker’s dozen, please!” And on this score, the self-proclaimed master dealer got exactly the goods he wanted." —Frank Bruni