Headline: Trump’s new Cabinet runs deep on loyalty, short on experience.

Yes, we must admit it’s true. Trump’s cabinet picks are short on experience.

The designated secretary of defense lacks the experience of rushing to evacuate Afghanistan after 20 years, then abandoning a secure airfield and being restricted to an insecure field in the middle of a city filled with hostiles and potential terrorists. As a result, 13 brave Americans died needlessly.

The designated director of national intelligence lacks the experience of cosigning a letter claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation, when the laptop was in FBI hands all the time.

The designated secretary of health and human services lacks the experience of being a stooge of big pharma, dedicated to improving their profits, not our health.

The designated secretary of state lacks the experience of coming to the Middle East pacified by Trump’s Abraham Accords, and leaving it torn by the violence of Hamas and Hezbollah.

The designated secretary of homeland security lacks the experience of testifying before Congress that the border is secure when it leaks worse than any sieve in history.

When a secretary of the treasury is designated, he or she will lack the experience of fueling an inflation to fund profligate spending that puts drunken sailors to shame.

And when a director of the FBI is designated, he or she will lack the experience of allowing a deluge of known and unknown criminals to pour into the country white clamping down on protesting parents and pet squirrels.

We could go on, but you see the point. Experience is valuable only insofar as it is experience doing something useful, but not if it is experience messing up. A man with a multi-page prison record is an experienced criminal, but not a successful one. Denizens of the Washington swamp are experienced in the same sense. We have a right – no, a duty – to ask appointees: Yes, you are experienced, but experienced at doing what? At messing up royally?