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By choosing Herman Cain for the Fed, Trump has actually broken new ground. Moore was a shocker, but Cain represents a whole new level of Trumpiness.
The two can seem similar, in that both are clearly unqualified and likely to be purely political animals. But there's more 1/
The two can seem similar, in that both are clearly unqualified and likely to be purely political animals. But there's more 1/
Moore is an incompetent, dishonest hack. But he didn't come out of nowhere. The modern GOP wants people like him, and Moore -- along with Kudlow – has been the party's go-to guy for hack economics for a long time. Trump was just rounding up the usual suspects 2/
But while Moore was out there predicting hyperinflation, faking numbers for the WSJ and giving speeches to Freedomfest, Cain was selling phony remedies for erectile dysfunction. 3/
Some people inside the conservative cult probably didn't even know that Moore was a hack. Everybody knew, to the extent they thought of him at all, that Cain was a clown. So choosing Cain is an assertion that Trump can pick anyone, and expect the party to kneel down 4/
The thing is, he's probably right. All indications now are that there is no nomination Trump can make that's so absurd that more than 1 or 2 GOP Senators will say no 5/
