msn.com - Forget the trump administration s buffoonery here s the real crisis opinion

This article makes a lot of sense. Trump hired the most unqualified, on purpose. When these
people screw up big time ( and there will be much more to come down the road ), Trump is their
lifeline, the only thing keeping them out of a jail cell. So they become more loyal to him,
more willing to do anything to help Trump seize more power, by any means necessary, the Law be
damned.

Some snips from artice:

"But doing better does not motivate Ratcliffe or any of the highest-ranking national security officials involved, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance.

Doing better would mean meeting or surpassing certain levels of excellence according to law, the Constitution and standards of professional conduct, as well as accepting responsibility for failure."

"Excellence, however, would stand in the way of their real motivation, which is power. None is qualified. All are willing to say and do anything, consequences be damned. The only qualification was whether they were loyal to Trump, and the best guarantee of that, to paraphrase Hannah Arendt, was whether they were the kind of clowns, idiots and buffoons who might “accidentally text” war plans to a reporter."

"The president didn’t know about the security breach. “I don't know anything about it,” he told a reporter who asked about it for the first time. “I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. It's a magazine that's going out of business. It’s not much of a magazine. But I know nothing about it.”

Why wasn’t he told? A reasonable guess might be that Hegseth and the others knew they were being careless and didn’t want to tell him.

But that would mean carelessness is a flaw.

It’s not.

Carelessness – or any of the injurious attributes of clowns, idiots and buffoons – is something Trump can trust them. When things go south, as they always do, he can trust them to cling to him more tightly, as by then, he might be the only thing standing between them and a jail cell.

When people talk about loyalty to Trump, they are not talking about it in the positive sense, as if they love him. They are talking about it in the negative sense, as if life as they know it would end without him."