Genuflect in advance

Nick Heer about tech billionaires at the king’s court:

There are two possibilities. The first is that these CEOs are all dummies with memory no more capacious than that of an earthworm. The second is that these people all recognize the transactional and mercurial nature of the incoming administration, and they have begun their ritualistic grovelling. Even though I do not think money and success is evidence of genius, I do not think these CEOs are so dumb they actually believe in the moral fortitude of these goons.

I think that these CEOs don’t believe in the moral fortitude of Trump and his circus, but I think that compared with eight years ago, they are conscious of the infantility of the character. They know his revenge desire and his legitimacy — both regarding the party and the voters: he’s on a street with no guardrails. He’ll do what he wants.

All he need is a snap of their fingers to bring them to their knees. The strategy of these CEOs, then, seems to be to genuflect in advance.