Takaichi Administration Appointments : Deputy PM Aso

Newly minted PM Takaichi, Japan's first female PM, has named paleo-LDP stalwart and former PM Aso Taro her deputy. He is a piece of work. Does a right-wing LDP PM take votes from opposition nationalist Sanseito in the next election? That's the LDP plan, as the opposition party is only only a bit farther right than the Takaichi administration itself. To date. (The one-upmanship will commennce soon, no doubt.) Crucially, however, Taniya, leader of Sanseito, is much younger (less than half Aso's 85 and some 17 years younger than the PM herself.) Sanseito is the one party enjoying cred with the under-45 bloc. Maybe Takaichi and the LDP were thinking a lurch to the right would claw back recent (as in July) electoral losses to Sanseito, but I think not: with the same octogenarian relics on perpetual rinse- repeat (sans the rinse, really), good luck with that. So, what manner of work is he? I mean Aso (sounds so much like, well...) Wealthy, born with the proverbial (though we might suggest sticking the proverbial somewhere else). So, he's from money, privilege, connections, patronage (forgotten anything?) So, that's life. 親ガチャ。But. He's a wanker. Noblesse oblige? Say what? Family's construction business used POW labor during the war. His take? Nothing to see here- 別に。He's complained that elderly Japanese visit the doctor too often. One could go on, but why?