No. Emphatically no.
Gaetz does not have the academic credentials or the legal credentials or the experience or the temperament or the political standing nor the acceptable political positions to be Attorney General.
I hope – don’t know, of course, but hope – that this is nothing more than Donald Trump’s sop to the hard right. That after Gaetz is rejected by the senate (even if it we’re talking about the newly constructed Republican majority senate I would expect a rejection), Trump can say something like “See, I tried”. This, presumably, would make the far right wing of his party feel good about him without actually getting anything out of it.
But, unlikely though it may be, there is always the possibility he would somehow be confirmed. Which would be godawful to the nth degree.
Stay tuned.
