Nothing captures the dramatic ideological transformation of the Republican Party more vividly than President-elect Trump's proposed cabinet. A pro-abortion-rights Kennedy running HHS (RFK Jr.). A pro-union centrist running Labor (U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer of Oregon). A former elected Democrat as director of national intelligence (Tulsi Gabbard). A former George Soros adviser, who now promises Trumponomics will turn around the economy, running the Treasury (Scott Bessent).
As Axios' Zachary Basu told you, Trump's Cabinet increasingly resembles a European-style coalition government, staffed with a dizzying array of ideological rivals united " for now " by a grand MAGA vision. The team represents the Trump worldview: Traditional conservatism is dead " and its biggest, lifelong advocates neutered to the point of irrelevance.
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