The same Republican officials who either didn't endorse Trump or endorsed him and then stuck their head in the sand for most of the election cycle? Or the same Republican voters would have voted for Bin Laden as long as he had an R next to his name?
FYI, you will have no problem finding people who question Comey's professionalism. Undermining the fairness of an election by leaking information about the investigation of one candidate but not another is the height of unprofessionalism. This is a standard corrupt law enforcement tool in local politics: imply one of the candidates might be up to no good right before an election. Then claim you were just doing due diligence once that candidate inevitably loses.
Have you seen what happened to his travel ban? And his healthcare plan? And ISIS plan? And wall plan? His bozos don't know how to either create or implement policy. So yes, instead of amending his insane policies just enough to get them passed, we'd be better off if he only employed complete idiots who'd keep on pushing things that had no chance of ever getting implemented. More importantly, this will send a signal to everyone what a terrible mistake this election was. Kind of like it took the economic collapse of several communist countries for people to wake up to the idiocy behind that ideology. Normalizing Trump means no one learns a lesson. And we get a more competent populist/nativist next time around.Loki, I'm honestly curious: do you think matters would be better if we had real bozos (like some of our current cabinet members) in high civil service positions instead of the current crop? If, say, DJT had decided to let the US Attorneys stay in their jobs indefinitely, do you think they should have resigned en masse and let themselves be replaced by whatever street sweepings the administration could find? Should ambassadors and other high ranking civil servants resign and let DJT put in whatever unqualified hacks he wants? How will this make our faith in democratic norms and institutions any stronger?
I thought we were talking about political appointments? I'm fine with people doing their job to keep the country from disintegrating. I'm not ok with people coming in to implement any kind of changes.I think there is a clear distinction between people in high civil service positions continuing to do their jobs - inasmuch as they believe their tasks to be legal and constitutional - and people actively joining the administration, such as current cabinet picks and other nominated positions. I have nothing but contempt for those GOP congressmen and senators who are burying their heads in the sand and actively assisting the Trump administration in deflecting attention from important issues like the Russia mess in order to achieve their legislative agenda (and grudging respect for those who are refusing to do so). But people like the current Director of the NSA weren't put there by Trump, and they have every reason to try to keep the government functioning - and providing important advice to the executive branch. I think the continued functioning and professionalism of our bureaucracy is one of the ways to safeguard our institutions from the kind of patronage and authoritarian behavior Trump seems to exhibit.