The problem is not really with any of Trump’s cabinet picks - they are just the byproducts of the actions of the voters who for whatever reason thought Donald Trump ever belonged in the Oval Office, let alone a second time.

Today is the anniversary of the day when Abraham Lincoln, at Gettysburg, gave us in two minutes the briefest and best evocation ever by any American of the promse of our Republic and of our responsibilities as citizens in it.

It is only necessary to imagine what Donald Trump (or his nineteenth century equivalent) might have said on that occasion to understand how far from any proper vision of America he stands. Indeed, it is far easier to imagine Trump as a member of the Southern Democratic Party at the time than of the then Republican Party - whose current namesake he has now himself so distorted and enslaved.