Posted on 12/17/2016 4:46:12 PM PST by smokingfrog
President-elect Donald Trump is putting together an unorthodox team — and that’s just fine with many conservatives.
In the wake of the election, speculation had focused on whether Trump’s personnel choices would be drawn from the GOP establishment or from people antagonistic toward it.
But he seems to have found a middle ground of sorts. While his picks are not anti-establishment in any real sense, it’s also hard to imagine many of them being nominated for similar positions by Mitt Romney or John McCain, had they won the White House.
“That’s true, sure — and that’s what a lot of conservatives like about it!” said Hogan Gidley, a GOP strategist who has worked for leading figures on the right of the party, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee during his 2016 presidential bid and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's White House campaign four years before.
Trump has chosen several people who have records of accomplishment in the business world or the armed forces but whose ideology — if any is discernible — is firmly within the parameters of conservative thought.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, Trump’s picks to lead the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, respectively, are positioned in a sweet spot for the president-elect. They are on the right side of the party and popular with the conservative grassroots, without being so far out on the fringe as to give their fellow GOP lawmakers heartburn.
Broadly speaking, Gidley said, conservatives are happy that the people selected by Trump can be seen as “antithetical not just to Hillary Clinton but to what Mitt Romney or John McCain would have done. Because they would have gone back to the bureaucratic trough and tried the same old retreads we have tried in several administrations.”
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I like Trump’s cabinet...
There is no orthodox cabinet
Cabinet orthodoxy means presidential orthodoxy
there is no presidential orthodoxy
the author is a fool
Thanks for posting, smokingfrog!
Ping to LS; I agree, President Elect Trump’s cabinet picks are giving the Dems nightmares.
“...Larry Schweikart, a conservative history professor and the co-author of “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” said that there were several Trump Cabinet selections who would “not in a million years” have gotten the nod from a more centrist GOP president.
“This goes back to the fact that DeVos and some of these others are people who actually want to effect change. It looks like Rick Perry will be Energy secretary. This is a guy who wanted to abolish the Department of Energy. … These are terrific choices! They are so in-your-face to the media and to the Democrats.” ...”
The author is just trying to say that these are not your typical republican establishment cabinet picks. (For the most part, anyway.)
“Trump has chosen several people who have records of accomplishment in the business world or the armed forces”
As compared to Obama’s
Jeh Johnson
Kerry
Jarrett
the EPA lady
etc
Either academics or lifetime govt pigs at the trough
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