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President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet was described as both “liberal” and perhaps “the most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times” by Axios on Saturday morning.
While some of Trump’s far-right nominees have sent many of his strongest critics into making frenzied claims that Trump will weaponize the government against them, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei with Axios shared a different take.
In a Saturday report, the pair noted Trump’s government now includes a pro-abortion environmentalist, a pro-union Republican congresswoman, a former George Soros adviser, and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate-turned-Republican.
Those picks are Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Tulsi Gabbard, and Scott Bessent, respectively. Allen and VandeHei wrote:
Lost in the noise of Trump’s most controversial picks is the simple, undebatable fact that this might be the most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times.
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.
Between the lines: It’s Trump’s team of (ideological) rivals.The team represents the Trump worldview: Traditional conservatism is dead — and its biggest, lifelong advocates neutered to the point of irrelevance.
Axios further hailed Trump’s still-forming cabinet as a group of “disrupters” and added, “In just under a decade, Trump, once a donor to Democrats, has transformed the GOP of George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney into a populist party with radically different views on trade, immigration and spending.”
Allen and VandeHei concluded, “The team represents the Trump worldview: Traditional conservatism is dead — and its biggest, lifelong advocates neutered to the point of irrelevance.” People close to the Trump transition team also told Axios they expected Kennedy to be confirmed by the Senate and that the GOP is no longer the party of George W. Bush.
