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 We have done it. We have normalized the soulless moral vacuum that surrounds public service in this country. I, for one, am glad that Jimmy Carter wasn't around to witness the embarrassing circus parade disguised as confirmation hearings for The Second Trumpreich's Cabinet. 

The former Faux News contributor Pete "Peter" Hegseth had his character questioned this past week: “One of your colleagues said that you got drunk at an event at a bar and chanted, ‘Kill all Muslims!’" To which the candidate replied, “Anonymous false charges,” much in the same way he dismissed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017. Keeping in mind that in a text Pete's own mother sent to him she referred to him as "an abuser of women."

Then again, one need not follow the trail too far back to discover the way that frat boy turned Supreme Court Justice Bret "Kegmeister" Kavanaugh defended his own youthful indiscretions powered by Vitamin B: Beer. If this wasn't part of the path that led to a woman accusing The Kegmeister of sexual assault, maybe we could let this go without noticing a trend. 

Like the fact that the incoming "dictator for a day" just received his non-sentence for his conviction on thirty-four counts of falsifying business records to pay hush money to a porn actress with whom he as having a dalliance while his wife had just given birth to their son. To quote the former game show host, apparently "when you're a star, they just let you do it."  

So now we seem destined to mint a whole new cop of "stars" to fill the ranks of the Trumpreich. with besotted, bitter boys working out their misspent youth by seeking approval from a body that is already full of them. 

And so it goes. 

Sorry, Saint Jimmy.