King of his very own Kakistocracy. Kakistocracy is simply the best umbrella term for the form of government we are heading into. It aptly combines the realities of a team that represents nepotism, oligarchy, plutocracy, kleptocracy, demagoguery, alt-right values and a disturbing tendency toward fascist white nationalism. For those of you that voted for Trump the word is Greek for “government by the worst men”. Herein lies the reasons why we come to this conclusion. The list grows darker and scarier each day. With people appointed to agencies that they have personally vowed to destroy and abolish. Trumps 'nepotising' children are a stain on the office and every meeting they attend. Trump’s decision to break with decades of precedent by declining to release his tax returns — makes it impossible to gauge the full extent of potential conflicts between his business interests and presidential role. If there is one thing that we’ve learned about Donald Trump, it’s that he is, fundamentally, a con man. First we have Stephen Bannon, the former head of Breitbart known for his open ties to white supremacists, anti-Semites, and foreign reactionaries in France and Russia. Bannon is a Svengali of sorts for the ugliest forces in American and international politics, a man who believes the Western world is in a fundamental struggle with Islam and who sees multiculturalism and liberal openness as a threat to the future of the West. Bannon’s role will be moving Trump toward anti-Muslim policies and a larger ethnocentric vision. Chief strategist Bannon is joined by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, whom Trump has reportedly offered the job of national security adviser. On one hand, Flynn has a long and decorated career in military intelligence. On the other, his public statements reveal a conspiratorial mind, anti-Muslim beliefs, and a tolerance for anti-Semitism. And indeed, the Washington Post reports he was removed from his position as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for fostering a “destructive climate.” Flynn has backed Trump on the renewed use of torture and refuses to rule out targeted killings of the families of suspected terrorists. He has stated, on Twitter, that “fear of Muslims is rational” and has peddled fake news, conspiracy theories, and anti-Jewish warnings. Rounding out this list is Alabama Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions. On Friday, various news outlets reported that Sessions was Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Justice. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sessions—then serving as a United States attorney in Mobile, Alabama—to be a federal district court judge. At a time when confirmation was a given, Sessions’ nomination stalled, then failed after testimony from those around him revealed a man with a dim view of black Americans. Another prosecutor, this one black, testified that Sessions had called him “boy” and joked that the Ku Klux Klan was “OK until I found out they smoked pot.” According to the Times, “Sessions denied calling the lawyer ‘boy’ but acknowledged or did not dispute the substance of the other remarks.”
In recent years, Sessions has been an advocate for strict immigration laws and other “tough on crime” measures. Earlier this year, he cited Trump’s 1989 advertisement calling for the execution of the Central Park Five as evidence of the president-elect’s commitment to “law and order.”
Sessions, who was too contemptuous of civil rights groups and black Americans to be confirmed as a federal judge by a panel of Republican senators in the 1980s, is poised to lead an agency tasked with defending the civil rights of millions of nonwhite citizens—an agency founded, in part, to combat the Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction South. If confirmed, Sessions will be tasked with defending voting rights; investigating rogue police departments like the one in Ferguson, Missouri; and pushing standards that ensure fair treatment for all Americans, regardless of background. It’s possible that Sessions would take up the mission of the DOJ and its Civil Rights Division.
