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The Personnel Are the Policy
Power Has Names
The article’s strongest point is also its simplest: Donald Trump selected the officials, Republican senators confirmed or enabled them, and those officials acquired federal power. The resulting administration is not a weather event. Whatever one thinks of each nominee’s résumé, responsibility belongs first to the president who made the appointments and the senators who supplied the votes.
That institutional chain matters more than the article’s barrage of insults. Cabinet secretaries, agency heads, White House advisers, and…
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