After the 2008 election, The Onion memorably published an article with a headline that ran something like “Black Man Given Worst Job in America.” Since the economy was collapsing at the time of the election, it looked like a fair assessment.
You can’t say that commuting between the White House and Versailles-in-the-Sky during a time of relative peace and prosperity is a bad gig. No, the worst job in America in 2017 is to be Trump’s Secretary of State. You will have to run around the world putting the best face possible on Trump’s militarism and neo-mercantilism, while being undercut repeatedly by contradictory messages from the boss.
Good luck, Mr. Tillerson: you’re going to need it. More on his appointment later today.