Trump is tapping ‘unconventional’ leaders because that’s what Americans voted for:
From the moment Donald J. Trump came down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015, he’s been anything but a conventional politician.
He’s consistently told Americans the unvarnished truth about everything from anti-worker “free trade” deals to our broken immigration system, from endless wars abroad to our two-tiered justice system.
Instead of caring about “conventional wisdom” or political orthodoxy, he’s been committed to doing what’s best for the American people.
And that’s exactly why everyday Americans, fed up with our country’s rudderless leadership, resoundingly re-elected President Trump.
Democrats and the media are naturally apoplectic about President Trump extending his unique way of running our country to his Cabinet and other agency nominations.
Just as they said about President Trump himself, his personnel picks have been attacked for lacking “traditional” experience or having “unconventional” views.
What these criticisms miss is that it was precisely because of those unconventional views and his unique resumé that Americans voted overwhelmingly to re-elect him.
They voted for a president and an administration focused on cutting through the noise and ignoring arbitrary credentials to deliver real results.
If that’s surprising to you, do a little reflection on what the last four years of “the adults” running things has entailed.
So many of Joe Biden’s nominees and staffers appeared very qualified on paper in the traditional sense of how Washington has operated — and most of these people have been, at best, incompetent or, at worst, outright destructive to our country’s stability and prosperity.
Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken boasted a long resumé of jobs at the highest levels of our country’s security and foreign policy apparatus, from the State Department to the National Security Council.
On Blinken’s “very qualified” watch, the Biden administration transformed the unprecedented era of world peace inherited from the first Trump administration into global chaos and conflict, from the Middle East to Ukraine to Asia. --->READ MORE HERE
Trump's Cabinet picks boast thin resumes. That's the point: ANALYSIS
"Debating resumes ... plays right into Trump's favor," one Democrat said.
Many of President-elect Donald Trump's picks to fill his Cabinet boast resumes that are thin on the kind of subject matter the agencies they would helm oversee.
But that doesn't necessarily mean they're politically unqualified.
The ongoing battle on Capitol Hill over Trump's selections underscores how outsider bona fides and shake-it-up attitudes now imbue would-be secretaries with credibility. That's in contrast to steady-as-she-goes mantras and beefy résumés in a government bureaucracy that voters believe has failed them, Republican operatives told ABC News.
The shifting vocabulary is just another example of Trump's ability to transform norms in Washington, but also of voter frustrations and a shifting electorate. And now, Democrats warned, targeting nominees' résumés risks reinforcing the image that the party is unreceptive to the beliefs of everyday Americans about what ails the country.
"I'm not endorsing anyone, but the argument that this person isn't qualified to do X because he doesn't have the résumé or the establishment kiss of approval just reinforces that they don't get it," said Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist and former aide to Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va. "Debating résumés when most people distrust government plays right into Trump's favor."
"If you asked most American people, guess what they would say, 'What's the difference? It's not like they've been doing a great job beforehand, so now you're worried about this guy?'" Kofinis added of would-be nominees' qualifications. "The argument is, 'you need to have people with managerial and certain type of policy expertise to run these agencies.' Based on whose opinion? Based on experts' opinion, or based on the American people's opinion?" --->READ MORE HERE
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