By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-17 02:11:45 | Updated at 2024-11-17 04:58:03
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Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Panned in Washington, Thrill Many of His Voters
The New York Times ^ | Nov. 16, 2024Updated 5:16 p.m. ET | Michael Corkery, Isabelle Taft and Shawn Hubler
Posted on 11/16/2024 6:06:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
To his detractors, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet looks like a rogues’ gallery of people with dubious credentials and questionable judgment. His supporters see something different.
“It’s a masterpiece,’’ Eileen Margolis, 58, who lives in Weston, Fla., and owns a tattoo business, said of Mr. Trump’s cabinet picks unveiled over the past week. “If it was a painting, it would be a Picasso.”
A “brilliant alliance,’’ is how Joanne Warwick, 60, a former Democrat from Detroit, described many of the nominees.
“It’s pretty much a star cast,’’ said Judy Kanoui of Flat Rock, N.C., a retiree and lifelong Democrat who voted for Mr. Trump for the first time this month.
Democrats, and even some Republicans, worry that these nominees for top positions in government are inexperienced, conflicted and potentially reckless. But in interviews with almost two dozen Trump voters around the country, his supporters were more likely to describe them as mavericks and reformers recruited to deliver on Mr. Trump’s promise to shake up Washington.
In Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee for health and human services secretary, Mr. Trump’s supporters see a crusader searching for new solutions to chronic illnesses, not a conspiracy theorist promoting questionable and debunked ideas about vaccines and fluoride.
In Matt Gaetz, the nominee for attorney general, many Trump s
upporters look past the ethical investigation into allegations that he had a relationship with a 17-year-old girl and see a provocateur who is willing to punish the Democrats who unjustly prosecuted the president-elect. “I think it’s so crazy, and I love it,’’ Merrill McCollum, 60, of Bozeman, Mont., said of the nominees.
Ms. McCollum said she voted for Mr. Trump after becoming frustrated by bureaucracy, identity politics and the rising cost of living. She is excited by his appointments of people she sees as outsiders to...
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: isabelletaft; michaelcorkery; shawnhubler
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2 posted on 11/16/2024 6:10:36 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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