It has been obvious, even to many of the higher republican leaders in DC, from the time of his grilling/vetting before his installation as Sec of Defense, that this Hegseth person was astoundingly unqualified. But, since I've seen unqualified appointees before, I crossed my fingers and hoped that the career professionals would carry his incompetent TV personality through whatever costume-playing he was about to engage in (same for several other embarrassments on the cabinet), and we'd trudge through the shit produced by his office generally intact as far as intelligent and well-thought through decisions were concerned. All the quick firings/dismissals/silencings started really worrying me though. Now I just hope that generally good advice still bubbles up from the career operatives and is employed at least after the smiling TV-actor goons realize that they've acted "strongly" (for the public) but with about one or two dimensions of a problem in mind, when the plan needed eleven or twelve dimensions at a minimum. When compared to the intellectual AND knowledge requirements of his job, Hegseth is a scary moron. We need to root for the "underlings" here -- the career experts who should be being employed to anchor and rudder the Big Ship. Will Trump ever realize that this is where our knowledge and insight resides? I doubt it.THAT requires thinking complexly and long and something other than himself.
