I’d bet my last nickel that *everyone* that Feels Up/Heels Up nominates for a government position is every bit as filthy...depraved...amoral...as they are.
Garlick Merrland is no moderate, nor is he a particularly deep thinker. Certain categorical imperatives rule his every conscious thought, and probably a lot of the unconscious thinking as well.
He was indoctrinated well at an early age. He could not easily leave that indoctrination behind at this stage of his life.
I think that honest people can get fooled and hire immoral/amoral people but I do not think that immoral/amoral people can have honest people around themselves.
Are you suggesting that “Birds of a feather stick together?”