There is no moderation, there is only his own self interest, and doing what will advance his position.

Trump’s choice for education secretary (DeVos, wealthy from the Amway ponzi scheme) wants to gut public education funding and privatize it…

He apparently settled for DeVos after being turned down by Jerry Falwell Jr.
These are NOT the actions of a man trying to move to the center, this is a man that wants to destroy education because it pleases his anti-intellectual followers and it helps him… after all he ‘Loves the poorly educated’…

His Attorney General pick- Sessions- was considered to be too racist to be a federal judge…

In 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Sessions, nominated by Republican President Reagan to be a a federal judge, after he acknowledged making racially insensitive remarks and calling the NAACP, the ACLU, the Southern Christian Leadership Council, and the National Council of Churches “un-American.”

It was the first time that the committee had rejected a lower-court nomination in nearly a half-century, and it came, amazingly, at a time when Republicans controlled the Senate.

The vote to reject the nomination was 10-8, with two Republicans joining all eight Democrats on the committee, to defeat the nomination after more than 20 hours of hearings.
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At issue were Sessions’ racial attitudes in comments expressed to a variety of people, and a prosecution he brought as U.S. Attorney against three civil rights leaders for alleged voter fraud.

A jury of seven blacks and five whites subsequently acquitted all three after deliberating for just three hours, and civil rights groups charged that the prosecution had been aimed at intimidating black voters, who in the previous election had turned out in record numbers.

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Sessions maintained that he was just “joking” when he said he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “OK” until he found out its members smoked pot. He denied ever bringing a prosecution in order to discourage black voters from casting ballots.

But Sessions made so many damaging admissions at his March hearing that Republicans called a second round of hearings in May, and at that second hearing, his answers changed so significantly that he faced credibility questions.

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In March, asked about testimony that he had characterized a white civil rights lawyer as “a disgrace to his race,” the nominee replied, “Trying to recollect on it, the best I could recall was I said, ‘Well, he’s not that popular around town. I’ve heard him referred to as ‘a disgrace to his race.’ ”

In May, however, he said, “I am absolutely convinced that I did not call Mr. Blacksher a disgrace to his race, and I did not acknowledge it in any form.”

In March, two lawyers, including a 13-year Justice Department veteran, testified that Sessions had referred to the NAACP, the National Council of Churches, the ACLU, and other groups as communist-inspired and “un-American.” Sessions conceded that he had made such remarks.

“It’s probably something I shouldn’t have said,” Sessions said then. “But I really didn’t mean any harm.”

After attacking Clinton incessantly over the supposed security breach of her emails, he is reportedly considering Petraeus for Secretary of state- a man that lost his security clearance for giving classified documents to a woman he was having an affair with…

As for the scandal involving the leaking of classified material — in which Mr. Petraeus resigned after the disclosure that he had given a confidential diary to his biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell — Mr. McCain said, “I think people make mistakes in life and you move on.”

Among the major questions is whether Mr. Petraeus would be able to regain his security clearance; experts say Mr. Trump would be able to override any objections to that through his executive privilege.

After Railing against wall street and hedge fund managers he picks a Hedge fund manager for secretary of treasury- giving the fox the keys to the hen house…

As a multi-millionaire hedge funder, Mnuchin fattened his personal fortune through his co-ownership of OneWest, a California-based bank that profited during the height of the financial crisis by engaging in an array of unethical practices. OneWest made predatory loans to the elderly via reverse mortgages and went on to aggressively foreclose on people’s homes, according to regulators and watchdogs. Housing advocacy groups accused the bank of racist lending practices like redlining, which is illegal under the Fair Housing Act.
One of the most egregious examples was the story of Ossie Lofton, a 90-year-old Lakeland, Florida, homeowner on a reverse mortgage whom OneWest foreclosed on over a 27-cent payment error with her insurance.

Lofton paid a bill to a OneWest subsidiary that was short 30 cents in late 2014, according to Politico. When she was billed for the change, she mistakenly sent a check for 3 cents rather than 30. By November, the bank had taken her home.

This isn’t the action of a man concerned about the little people, this is a man who is very quickly trying to fleece the sheep that he has fooled- he is trying to create a kleptocracy.

And it will work. Trump supporters will fall in step with a few more empty promises and America will be the better for every one of those broken promises. Trump’s supporters really deserve no better, than to be treated like Trump treats everybody else to whom he owes money. They turned a blind eye to a known liar and lapped up the spittle oozing from his lips.

Robert, I don’t blame you for keeping your guard up. You should and I will too. The man is more slippery than a greased pig let loose in a ball bearing factory.

The fact that Trump is a lying liar that lies to his side as much as the other is one small thing to be grateful for in this season of giving thanks. Enjoy the Trumpducken while it lasts!

The fact that it took just two weeks isn’t reassuring, even if I’ve cheered every flipflop and walkback and alt-right-doublecross. It speaks volumes about the cynicism and incipient corruption of the impending Electoral College President Trump’s administration that he so easily jettisons his campaign promises, however toxic.

I’m sure it’s tactical. Trump the showman wants to stage his “Presidency: The Apprentice” starting with “Triumphal Entry Into Austria”, not “Siege of Stalingrad”.

After that? Look at the rest of his actions, especially his cabinet picks. Trump’s not draining the swamp, he’s carving out a bigger wallow for himself, his family, and his cronies. Maybe the king of the deal is offering us a deal? Sort of a protection proposition: Nice country ya got here, be a shame if somebody burned it down. Why dontcha just let me loot this Treasury here, and everything’s asbestos. Got me?

And I can’t overlook the fact that he’s still playing kissy-face with Putin. Two autocrats snuggling has way too much of an Axis Powers vibe for me.

I really sympathize with the search for hope, Steve. But I have no intention of being played by Trump…the way he’s already played his followers.