Agreed. Should the State and Defense Department heads be allowed serve for 10 years? The mission of these departments, like the FBI is to serve the entire country-should be bipartisan. You can’t have abrupt swings every 4 years. Perhaps it’s good our allies don’t know what to expect.
I can recommend everyone see the movie. If anything the makeup artists did a great job aging everyone over a 50 year period. It pointed out the pandemonium going on when he took over the Radicals Division. We just may have really needed him then. Likewise we really need Trump today. Does the bloom wear off the rose? It did with J Edgar.
You can’t have abrupt swings every 4 years. Perhaps it’s good our allies don’t know what to expect.
No, and that is precisely what we need. Would you have Trump take office in 2016 and be saddled with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2010? I cannot think of a better way to empower the deep state.
And State and DOD can already serve as long as a President wants. Trump could continue with the same person if he pleased.
The ten years is a prohibition against longer, not a time they are allotted despite popular efforts to say James Comey was not “allowed to complete his term” and demanding reasons for his firing...etc.
A President should NEVER be saddled with people from the previous administration. And that concept should reach MUCH deeper into the bureaucracy. It prevents the president from enacting his voter approved agenda, as we saw happen to Trump.