From the moment he began assembling his administration, president-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the worst fears of the 75 percent of the electorate who did not vote for him. He has eschewed a team of rivals in favor of prospective nominees who carry the stains of inexperience and insouciance regarding issues that matter most to millennials and minorities, who voted overwhelmingly against him, or the issues that matter to the majority of all voters who declared by a margin of over 2.8 million distinct
ballots that Mr. Trump is not their president of choice. Americans have been asked to "give him a chance" but, if he didn't already squander that chance on the campaign trail itself, his actions since the election have certainly proven that his administration is a sure bet for disaster on numerous fronts.
With each successive pick, Mr. Trump has entrenched his inner circle of executive confidantes and cabinet nominations with radicals who are, at best, inexperienced and, at worst, white-supremacist ideologues. Within a week of the election, Mr. Trump appointed the architect of his divisive campaign, Stephen Bannon, formerly the executive chairman of the sensationalist media outlet Breitbart News, as his chief strategist. During Bannon's tenure at Breitbart, he helped fuel a hard-right nationalist movement with anti-immigrant and racist content, earning him the title of father of the "alt-right"--a sanitized appellation for white nationalism.
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