The guy Trump expects to save him from Mueller is a real piece of work. But then, so are most of his appointments -- not just hacks, but petty crooks and scam artists. Price, Zinke, etc. Why? 1/ nytimes.com/2018/11/08/us/…
Partly it's because those are Trump's kind of people -- people a lot like him. But I also think it's a Republican thing. It's like the preference of the GOP for economic hacks, even though there are more respectable alternatives 2/ krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/lar…
The thing, I think, is that for today's conservative movement, as for Trump, someone decent is ipso facto unreliable: he might actually display a conscience, or care about professional ethics, in a crunch. And that's not a risk they want to run 3/
