It did seem, at least, that the appointments to Trump’s cabinet might help us make plausible statements about the trajectory of his administration.
That Trump has picked more loyalists than last time is true, inevitable and not especially useful in terms of figuring out how exactly (apart from never appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the boss!)
That some of his nominees are eccentric or unfit-seeming and others are more conventional is likewise to be expected.
Neither observation gives us a general theory of Trump 2.0.
Instead, let’s consider three subtheories of how this cabinet might actually work.
Persons:
Donald Trump’s, Trump, let’s, Matthew Zeitlin
Organizations:
Trump