When loyalty becomes the most important qualification for public office, the American people are the ones who pay the price. When loyalty matters more than qualifications, the Oval Office becomes a place where everyone says yes—and nobody dares say no. There's a difference between hiring someone who shares your political philosophy and hiring someone whose most important qualification is an unwillingness to disagree with you. Every president wants people who support his agend

By now, if you follow politics even casually, you’ve probably heard about what’s being called the “Sharpie Meeting.” This was a cabinet meeting—one that should have been focused on war, intelligence, and economic fallout—where President Donald Trump spent several minutes talking about Sharpie markers. Not as a quick aside, but as a detailed story about how he supposedly saved the government money by replacing expensive pens with $5 Sharpies. It’s a strange moment, and underst