Proposed: the best model for Trump’s cabinet is the Gilded Age, when Presidents with no previous national political profile had...
Proposed: the best model for Trump’s cabinet is the Gilded Age, when Presidents with no previous national political profile had to balance between securing their position by distributing portfolios to allied factions and maintaining chain-of-command loyalty
as compared to more recent models where
national party elites “audition” to head professional apparatuses whose
goals and personnel are broader than and prior to any given
administration