One crucial point that gets lost in the avalanche of protection about Donald Trump's dreadful Cabinet candidates is that they're all (other than the ones who withdraw) going to need to go through verification hearings next year. Those hearings are a long method away– they'll be kept in February or March, mainly. By choosing all these individuals quicker and previously than typical, Trump has actually offered Senate Democrats a long period of time to prepare and outline technique.
The Democrats are not going to obstruct any candidates. They do not have the votes or the power to do that. They can still ask difficult concerns; they can still command the phase with nationwide attention focused on them. And there is an apparent method they can utilize that spotlight to do the something most observers believe is their leading concern: to reconstruct some reliability with working-class citizens.
Let me begin by asking you this concern: Looking over Trump's candidates, what is the terrific unifying style? No, it's not that they're all Trump followers. That's real, however it was an offered and is hence dull. No, it's not that they're terrible towards ladies. That's real of a few of them, however just some. No, it's not that they've stated and guaranteed to do stunning things. That's real too, and they ought to be questioned strongly on those matters, however that still isn't the terrific style.
The fantastic style is the number of them are enormously abundant. I saw on Alex Wagner's program Thursday night that the combined net worth of Joe Biden's Cabinet was $118 million. That's not chicken feed, and no doubt if we returned to late 2020– early 2021 we ‘d discover a lot of Fox News sectors on what a lot of hypocritical plutocrats Democrats are.
The overall net worth of Trump's Cabinet? It's at least $13.3 billion, which's not since there are simply a couple of truly rich choices. Just-named Small Business Administration candidate Kelly Loeffler and her spouse, for example, deserve $1 billion. By Axios's count, a minimum of 11 billionaires “will be serving in essential functions in the administration” if they're all verified. That's not even counting Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, who will not be main Cabinet members. If you toss them in, the overall is $360 billion (the huge bulk of which is Musk, the world's wealthiest guy). And after that, naturally, there's the billionaire commanding all of them.
Let's stick with the approximately $14 billion net worth of those candidates who'll appear before the Senate. It's a shocking figure. It's frequently forgotten that a person of the core qualities of authoritarian programs, in addition to extremism and nativism and so on, is corruption. Authoritarians are corrupt and self-dealing, from Hermann Goering's art collection to Imelda Marcos's shoes. And, responsibility being a bourgeois democratic principle, it's something they make fun of. It's in their nature.
I do not understand how all these individuals made their cash. I do not rather concur with Balzac that there's a criminal offense behind every fortune,
