Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Clinton's Liberal White House Takes Shape

Liberal Democrats apply here.

August 19, 2016 at 1:03 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

The look of a liberal Democrat.
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Will Hillary Clinton be a standard-order mainstream liberal Democrat if she is elected in November? That view received some supporting evidence this week with the announcement of the leadership group for her transition planning team.

If personnel is policy -- and it most certainly is -- then Clinton's choices matter. Based on the eight people she named to her transition team, she'll fill her administration with governing professionals who have strong ties to the party, including some with strong ties to the current president.