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The prospective nominees for key cabinet positions in President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration have taken Congress by surprise and have triggered alarms from both Democrats and Republicans. Unlike in 2016, when Trump initially assumed office, he is steering clear of anyone he deems insufficiently loyal.
Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten explains why Trump is prioritizing loyalty in these nominations to ensure that his agenda is carried out.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
This is precisely why Trump and his transition have emphasized loyalty as perhaps the key criteria for candidates looking to serve in his second administration. The media frames this in bad faith, characterizing loyal staffers as toadies who will rubber-stamp lawless acts. But loyalty means fidelity to the president’s agenda and dogged devotion to helping him execute the mandate for which we voted in the face of staunch opposition. This should be the bare minimum of what is required of personnel. It’s what every administration would expect of its staffers.
What the media is implicitly saying, in referring to loyalty pejoratively, is that they want Trump to hire disloyal appointees who will subvert the duly elected president to prevent the American people from getting the policies we voted for. The fear in truth is that if Americans get what we want, the ruling class will lose its power, prerogatives and privileges. Every day, the incoming Trump administration will face resistance from uni-party congressmen, establishment judges, blue states, corporate media, popular cultural institutions and beyond. But the first point of friction will always be with the leviathan administrative state.
