Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?

Victor Davis Hansen Analyzes Trump's Cabinet Picks

Trump is staffing his new team at lightning speed. Most of us are overjoyed at the choices, but Democrats and the left just don’t get it.

Victor Davis Hanson, a conservative, a historian, and a scholar, recently wrote an analysis of Trump’s cabinet picks. His explanation is absolutely brilliant, as usual.

Here are his four main categories of analysis. But for the whole insightful impact, read the full evaluation on Twitter/X. No one understands history as it is being made better than Hansen.

"Many of Trump first-round picks share some common themes.

One, many, who were in the past victimized by government bullies and cowardly bureaucratic grandees, or proved sharp critics of the administrative state, are now, in karma-style, in charge of the very agencies that hounded him . . . .

Two, none of these appointments are traditional swamp creatures. Few rotate from the think tanks. This time around there are no retired “Wise Men” or retired four-stars. Few are Uni-party magnificoes revolving back into high government from their DC university or New York corporate and investment way stations. None are DEI, cover-our-identity-politics-base candidates . . . .

Three, they all share a reputation from the mainstream media, bicoastal elite, or administrative state guardians as a little “out there” or even “crazy” and “nuts”, whether RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, or Pete Hegseth. So, their opponents rightly fear they are immune from mainstream media disparagements, the usually leftwing generated hoaxes, and beltway tsk-tsk scorn . . . .

Fourth and finally, they are not radicals or nihilists. Rather, they are reformers who are trying to trim or eliminate bloated government machinery, or return institutions and agencies to their normal functions and original missions. In contrast, the last few years of Biden governance chaos and near insurrection were abnormal—and dangerous . . . ."