Even the fiercest attention-mongers went virtually unnoticed once the First Felon–elect began revealing his choices to run the government, which is shaping up to be a Who-Shouldn’t-Be-Who assemblage of (mostly) unqualified or grossly inappropriate sycophants, with a couple of accused sexual predators thrown in. Our collective category of Cabinet hopefuls and administration appointees, the Nominees, topped the A.W.I. (49.2 percent), followed by that tiresome kibitzer without a portfolio Elon Musk (34.2 percent).
In a relatively normal world—not expected again until 2028 at the earliest—the rest of the formidable field, which included Jeff Bezos, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Anthony Weiner, and Prince Andrew, would have been contending for top honors. Not last week.
