2. The adage "personnel is policy" needs the proviso that for an outsider administration like Trump's, staffing is especially hard.
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13. Although I think a President Sanders would have a rich pool of academics to draw from. Secretary of Education Fredric Jameson.
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Great thread, as usual
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I am sure the Jacobin writers will be happy to comply
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Bernie’s a LEFTIST. Very different to a socialist! Leftists futilely try to make capitalism nicer. Socialists want it ended!pic.twitter.com/wtx6HYSZDH
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He's run/won as a socialist before actually, when he was mayor of Burlington, VT
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Counterpoint: do you actually think think tank appointees are remotely competent?
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Sanders is closer to the Democratic mainstream than Trump is the Republican mainstream, yeah? Based on party platform, that is.
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There are at least a bunch of good leftist & left-liberal think tanks like Demos, CBPP, EPI, and the Roosevelt Institute though.
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The major Democratic shortage IMO (
@noboa has thoughts here) is on foreign policy folks.
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