(Credit: AP/John Locher/Getty/ diego_cervo) On the “Keepin’ It 1600” podcast a few days ago, journalist Ana Marie Cox made an observation that captured the ongoing spectacle of Donald Trump appointing right-wing zealots and unqualified hacks to staff his Cabinet and his administration. In discussing Trump’s naming Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Cox said of the president-elect, “He’s too lazy to have an ideology himself, so he just kind of lets other people think it up for him.” In Cox’s formulation, Trump has surrounded himself with people who are happy to do the work of having an ideology for him.