For years Conservatives have complained about Affirmative Action because it is not concerned with job related factors but only race or yichus for jobs or college admission.
Trump declared at his first presidency he was going to hire only the best people. But many of them ended up disagreeing with him and became his biggest critics
This time around he is not looking for competence or experience - the most important and non- negotiable factor is loyalty - not only now but forever. As his son declared "I want people who ‘don’t think they know better’ than father in Cabinet."
It is ironic that he is using affirmative action but substituting loyalty for race because he doesn't want resistance to doing anything he wants! After all he doesn't want anybody who thinks he knows better than he does ,since he is such a stable genius who aced competency tests. Nobody could possibly know more than he does!
Group think / yes men.
ReplyDeleteConfirmatory bias.
He will still have disagreements with them.
But this is also the Hareidi way.
Whereas in the Sanhedrin, they would start with the youngest member giving his opinion, so as not to be influenced by the Nasi, hareidim only conform to the daas Torah of the gadol.