Loyalty

Laura Loomer has publicly described her role in the Trump administration as "loyalty enforcer."  Never in the entire history of the United States, through forty five other Presidents, has anyone felt the need to have a "loyalty enforcer."  Oh, sure, there are things that go on behind the scenes, but it's all part of the transactional nature of partisan politics.  No one felt they needed a "loyalty enforcer," at least publicly.  It makes you think of the kid who had to eat some of the king's food each meal to make sure it wasn't poisoned.

I'm reading a book about England's Henry VII, the father of the well-known Henry VIII.  He had a loyalty enforcer, Bishop Morton.  If you whispered in the Bishop's ear that someone was a secret Yorkist, that secret Yorkist either disappeared privately or was hung publicly.  That's what I think of when Laura Loomer calls herself a "loyalty enforcer."

Time for a loyalty check.