“Elections have consequences.” A truism often invoked by President Obama, this aphorism will often be cited, rightly so, as President-elect Trump forms his administration and takes office. He ran an openly racist and unapologetically fascist campaign. Even as some folks are huffing and puffing with righteous indignation as he forms a racist and fascist government, no one should feign surprise: he never pretended that he would do anything else.

As the government forms, we should take note, too, that Trump is in the process of folding the Executive Office of the President, perhaps the presidency itself, into the family business, blurring if not obliterating the distinctions between his public office, his private corporate empire, and his family. Donald Trump, in full public view, is in the process of forming the most corrupt administration in American history. The question is: Will anyone stop him? I think he thinks that no-one will stop him. I think he is probably right.