I wake up every morning and often find an idea for a story within the first few minutes on MSNBC —
Today it was about how Trump is using stagecraft to roll out potential members of his administration. “It has this reality TV feel,” says Kristen Welker.
I have to note that it’s cheesy stagecraft at best.
This has never happened before… consider how he’s at this mansion he owns on his country club property and each candidate has a photo op with Trump as he greets him at the door.
Smile for the camera. Otherwise shut up.
It’s like a damn reality show. Only unlike reality shows, this is as real as it gets. It’s like “Survivor” when the losing team actually dies.
Forget — well never forget — who these “potentials” are and how they will set back the progress made over eight year in the various areas their purviews oversee.
When the least of the changes we can expect with Jess Sessions is to marijuana legalization in the various states that now legalized either medical or recreational/medical marijuana, you know we are in trouble.
Move from there to the attack on Planned Parenthood and women’s right to choose, and we still only have moved up a notch on the scale of losing our rights.
Then we get serious.
We can expect draconian changes to consumer protection, environmental policy, immigration policy, freedom of press, health care protect, voter rights, Wall Street reform, and international cooperation and leadership with our allies.
And all this starts now with a preview one expects at an old fashioned carnival sideshow.