4. DC has a cottage industry of partisan ‘in-and-outers’ (working at think tanks & universities) ready to work depending on which party wins
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5. If Jeb! or Rubio had won they would've hired from Heritage & AEI, if Clinton had won she would've hired from CAP, Brookings, etc.
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6. As
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7. Trump & Bannon have broken with GOP orthodoxy on some key issues (Russia, immigration, trade, USA as guaranteer of global capitalism).
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8. The problem Trump/Bannon have is that there is a dearth of qualified, government ready people who share their worldview.
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9. The upshot is Trump has been slow to hire & has hired some conventional Republicans he distrusts (Mattis, McMaster).
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10. Generally, Trump/Bannon have been able to get their ideological allies in power is White House jobs not requiring Senate approval.
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11. And the few Trumpist they've gotten in have run into problems: Flynn and now Gorka.
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12. Tangentially: Sanders (or future Sanders-like candidate) will face same problem which is why USA needs socialist think tanks.
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Universities already are such "think tanks". Right wing think tanks were formed in reaction to existing academia.
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Historically not really true -- earliest think tanks were liberal.
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