pliant

A few years ago, I wrote about the comforting magic of "soft and pliant" egg noodles, the base for one of my all-time favorite meals: my Nana's cream chicken.

If Trump appoints a more pliant attorney general this time, he has the power to order the Justice Department to investigate his critics, a GOP lawyer who is reportedly advising the president-elect wrote last week.

Thanks to a deferential Supreme Court, a subservient Republican Party that won a Senate majority and a determination to assemble a more pliant administration, there will be fewer checks on his power.

What very well might is a return to soaring inflation, if Trump manages, with a pliant Republican Congress, to impose the massive tariffs that set his heart afire.

It doesn’t just want pliant existing governments so that companies can run their own affairs.