@GottaLaff Stalin had a distinct pattern of picking people with flaws that could be easily converted into social stigmas — such as felony convictions — but that wouldn't directly endanger his power as his closest coworkers. Seeing the pattern of combined sycophancy and incompetence in both Trump's cabinet and his legal teams, I think he's trying to follow the same pattern, only he's worse at recognising ability than Stalin was. So, Santos seems to be kind of the best fit: he can do sycophancy; he has a felony indictment hanging on his head; and he's not a threat to Trump's power the way that he'd probably perceive DeSantis, who has actual governing skills, as.