Trump’s Cabinet meetings have become televised loyalty pageants, with members competing to praise him like courtiers before a tin-pot Caesar. They tell themselves the groveling is performative schtick to own the libs. But repetition is corrosive.
iPINIONS contends that what begins as a story to survive humiliation hardens into truth. Lincoln assembled a Team of Rivals. Trump assembled a Team of Vassals.
Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/trumps-cabinet-finds-pride-and-joy
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