Editorial Board
Trump’s Nominees Suggest Familiar Chaos
The president is entitled to a team that agrees with him. But Senate Republicans should have little tolerance for kooks and grifters.
Mr. Secretary?
Photographer: James Devaney/GC ImagesIf personnel is policy, as the Reagan-era slogan had it, Donald Trump’s second administration is likely to be as idiosyncratic — not to say calamitous — as his first. Mitigating the potential damage will be up to Senate Republicans.
The good news is that some of Trump’s expected picks are experienced public servants with more-or-less normal views. One needn’t agree with Senator Marco Rubio on much, for instance, to concede that he’d be qualified to serve as secretary of state. Likewise for Representative Mike Waltz, Trump’s pick for national security adviser, and CIA nominee John Ratcliffe.