Editor: Remember those halcyon days when Cabinet members were fired unceremoniously without so much as a fair thee well? And then they were gone, no fancy title, no no-show job for them, they were exiled to Siberia with a tweet lashing about their incompetence and stupidity. It was great social media fun to denigrate those ingrates. That is how it was in the first Trump administration. Remember? When proposed Cabinet members had more than a trace amount of qualifications for the job, they were capable of independent thought and their TV presence and social media chops were less a factor. Hard to remember, it does seem so long ago. With this first dismissal, things are different now with the second Trump administration. It is like Little Leaguers getting a participation trophy, no need to feel bad about a job poorly done.
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