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A president’s Cabinet offers Americans their best view into how an incoming chief executive will govern. In more normal times, presidents used their appointment power to balance competing policy interests, mollify restive members of their own party, and even extend an olive branch to the opposition.
That is not the case with the Trump administration. Triumphant at the polls and overstuffed with ego by the partisan right-wing media that gives form to his reality, Trump’s recent slate of nominees are nothing short of a sledgehammer to the federal government.
They’re also a sinister loyalty test designed to preemptively root out any remaining Republican dissenters.
