A small epiphany today: Trump himself is the shiny object that distracts us, while his handlers...

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18. I would love it if the same thing happened at all Executive Branch

departments and agencies. Trump's staff is completely clueless about who to appoint to anything, so it would send them into a complete tizzy of incompetence. They've been dragging their feet with regard to all of the appointments they need to make, because they have no idea what to do or who to choose.

It's all part of the ignorance about federal government operations everyone on Trump's staff has. They simply don't know what these organizations do, how they do it, and what their responsibilities are. Trump knows nobody, and neither does his senior staff. None have any experience in government at this scale.

If the half-dozen or so senior people at all those agencies all handed in their resignations at once, everything would come to a slow, grinding halt after about a week. Federal career bureaucrats absolutely require direction from top staff. It's the nature of those jobs. They can follow broad directives, but with no directives, they can do nothing, frankly.

It would create a bureaucratic paralysis, the like of which has never been seen before. Trump's people would be in instant crisis, with no clue about how to extract themselves from it.