General McMaster

Going from Flynn to McMaster feels like going from Beetle Bailey to Jack Ryan. But I don't know much about him. He is, importantly, full of degrees and the author of Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam, based on his PhD thesis. How do we do from a marginal Putin stooge/Russian asset/whateverthefuck to a highly qualified and possibly super ethical choice in one fell swoop? How does someone like McMaster accept an appointment like this if there isn't something wrong with him? I do have a hypothesis to explain part of this: Trump…