Democracy Dies in Darkness

All the president’s problematic men

Good help is hard to find — unless you lower the bar that once considered sexual misconduct and other alleged events as a barrier to entry.

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Matt Gaetz arrives at an America First Policy Institute gala at President-elect Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. (Alex Brandon/AP)
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Here they come, the best and the brightest, intoxicated by the “Y.M.C.A.” chorus blasting from Donald Trump’s playlist and accepting the call to join his Cabinet.

Who do we have? At the time I wrote this column Trump had picked 11, including a dog assassin from South Dakota and a former “Real World” star. But we’ll leave those two be for now and talk instead about the fact that three of his intended nominees — a rather high percentage for any office job? — have been accused of some form of sexual misconduct.