3/ In addition to Trump's alarming alliance with the alt-right, the president-elect picked Jeff Sessions, a racist neo-Confederate, for Attorney General and Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, an outspoken Islamophobe and opponent of the Iran deal, for National Security Advisor (another office not subject to Senate approval). Reince Preibus, his pick for Chief of Staff, is a Republican hack with  no experience in government. Rep. Mike Pompeo, tapped for director of the CIA, favors expanding Guantanamo and returning to the Bush administration's abhorrent anti-terrorist methods. He opposes abortion even in the case of rape and incest. Candidates rumored to fill agency leadership positions promise the return of the kind of anti-government ideologues who corroded the civil service during the Bush administration.

And that's aside from Trump's flagrant conflicts of interest, nepotism, ignorance and $25 million settlement for fraud. A disaster.