Cant wait to see the Cabinet
Here's a heads up kid. The projected Biden cabinet will likely be characterized by some of your ilk as fully stocked with Deep-state Dems. And I imagine they'll likely be from over the country, not just Delaware or the Kennedy School. And hopefully have a sprinkling of a few decent Repubs to present a non-partisan patina.
I could see Mitt being offered something.
ARRGH! I hate that. Why do Dems always put a GOPer in as Defense Sec or FBI/CIA? Just find a qualified person in your party. No benefit and only harm will come from having a Repub in the Cabinet or another high post. One of the more foolish things Dems do. makes them look more weak than bipartisan and cooperative. Go with your convictions. Stick with your team.
Bo-I'm on Team America and still beleive there are a few Repubs who are not tainted by Corona-Trump-2016/20 who still put country ahead of party. But I may be wrong.
Given the contentious and overly partisan warfare Americans have waged on one another, IMO healing and listening and respecting the reasonable opinions from someone who moderately disagrees with you politically is a start and sends a moderate political message that can be understood by most Americans as an act of goodwill and non-partisan. There also may be areas of commonality re certain national policies where party affilliation is not critical to organizing and carrying out national policy.
The point is I'm not ruling out service to country because of party affiliation. I want smart patriots who understand and can administer and govern effectively.
YMMV
If Americans continue on hyper-partisan politics us-vs them, blue v red etc, liberals v morons, it will get worse. So if handing out a cabinet position to a Repub or two, sends a non-partisan message, particularly early on in a new D-administration, why not?
And offering Romney a position of trust would be a fuck-you to Trump.
That and tweaking kid was the real point of my post.
The Republican Party should be blown up to the foundation, the rubble burned to ash and the ash sowed into the soil with salt to never grow again.
Being “reasonable” on one side is how we arrived to the brink of authoritarianism.
Achtung, baby!
IMO the Republican party of Gingrich-McConnell-Trump is a fascist cancer that is threatening to kill our democracy. And it must be eradicated ASAP. And i do not hold the "I was only following orders" crowd blameless, they followed orders and got tax custs and judges, but the truth is there are too many of them to get rid of in one election. So lets chip away and remove or at least isolate and neuter the truly evil and the onlt real way to do it is win the WH, the Senate and keep the House.
Now is the time to hold onto principles but to be reasonable and not threatening to the large middle where the votes are needed. The progress we seek will not all be gained in 2021, or maybe 2023, but they will as the bogeyman of progressive polices are unveiled and middle class working Americans see the benefits spread across society and not hoarded by the wealthiest and most powerful.
And I need a haircut too, but all things considered, it can wait awhile.