Successful people can be successful politicians. It's true that Trump is no expert, but he has a team of experts. He doesn't know about STEM but he assembled a team of advisors which include Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. He thought torture works, but James Mattis (Sec of Defense) told him it was false, and he accepted it.

Musk resigned and his entire cabinet is objectively the least qualified set of people in American history. I fail to see how stacking all your positions with people fundamentally opposed to the missions of every agency is somehow seen as a team of experts.

1. When did Musk resign? Everything I can find says that he is still a member of the advisory board.

2. "Objectively the least qualified" is not the same thing as "doesn't agree with Democrats about the agency's proper mission."

Yes, because Ben Carson is fully qualified, and people's only issue with him is that they disagree with his approach. Get a life.

So you 1) did not address the fact that you completely made up the talking point that Musk resigned from the advisory board, presumably hoping that nobody here would check, and 2) apparently assume that I agree with every single Trump cabinet pick because I refuse to get on board with declaring the whole thing an unmitigated disaster. To address your specific example, of course Carson is not qualified for HUD, although he would have arguably been qualified for HHS. But I imagine you would not have been thrilled with him being appointed for any position at all, because one of the world's foremost neurosurgeons is some kind of barely-literate nincompoop, right?

I normally don't respond to trolls, especially ones that invent alternative facts from whole cloth, but I'll make an exception for you. Feel special?

EDIT: after checking out the rest of your contributions to this site, it seems your standard approach is to state your opinions as proven facts, from your hilarious "Balloon Theory" of how blenders remove fiber from food, to your dumbfoundingly ahistorical slander that the Second Amendment was written specifically to appease slaveholding Southerners.

Please try to adjust your approach. You'll find a much more receptive audience here if you admit that some things are just your personal perspective.

We'll see if his arrogance allows him to actually utilize advice. He's good at being a reality show personality and getting people to trust him, but otherwise he's a know-nothing.

These are not experts.

People want what they were promised. Career politicians were not giving. They elected someone else instead.

Reality is Trump or anyone else wont be able to deliver. I think It all started when democracy transitioned from model of governence to model of public welfare. Then you had some who demanded something else in return (crony capitalism, certain laws), some outsourced jobs to favourable countries and some just immigrated. A shitty mess really.

People will have to further dial down their expectations from democracy/government.

It isn't allowed to use HN primarily for political and ideological arguments, nor are single-purpose accounts allowed here, so we've banned this one.

Democracy in this country was tainted from the start, most of the population were excluded from participation (women & non-whites), so the idea that it suddenly became corrupted is nonsense. The corruption got even worse as those with money and power resisted the others gaining rights to protect themselves from the people with money and power.