Matt Gaetz running the justice department. Fox hosts in charge of the Pentagon and transportation. Elon Musk as head of layoffs. And Robert F Kennedy Jr and Dr Oz overseeing the nation’s health.

Some have likened Donald Trump’s administrative picks to a clown car; others are calling our incoming leadership a kakistocracy, or “government by the worst people”, as Merriam-Webster puts it.

The word has been trending online, with a burst in search traffic in recent weeks and a new dedicated subreddit. It’s not the first time Trump has (accidentally) made the term famous; many discovered it in his first term. But the kakistocracy of 2016 looks like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood compared with the president-elect’s new batch of sidekicks.

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    The sad thing - even if this were to be true, I bet nothing happens. Just look at Bush v. Gore. Even many so-called Democrats and so-called liberals pretend as if Bush won, that anyone bringing it up is just a sore loser and so on. More recently, we have the Russia and Comey thing when it comes to Hillary.

    Even if we later have the smoking gun about this, I bet we still sustain damage from donvict and his buddies in the meantime, and people still act like it’s NBD, even if true…

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      I mean the voting software stolen is undeniably true, since they admitted doing it themselves and there’s evidence of Trump’s lawyers hiring people to steal the voting software.

      nothing might come of it, but I still talk about how W stole his election because his brother was the governor of florida and stopped ballot counting in that state, so if this election was stolen, we might as well have indisputable proof like we have of Florida in 2004.

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        Ya accidentally put California the first time instead of Florida, theres no way in hell California would elect a Bush mostly cause they are from out of state.

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          thank you, I was walking down the street and doing speech to text wildly gesticulating and didn’t check after I talked, haha

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      Start by contacting the relevant people and demanding a manual recount.

      If you can say that you actually tried, and still nothing happened, then you’re allowed to wallow in despair.

      But you don’t get to just skip straight to the despair part without the doing everything you can part. Then the only source of your despair will be you.