Give it up, media: Trumps hiring loyalists like every other president

The anti-Trump progressive left — at least as embodied in the legacy media — is fairly predictable.  A few weeks ago, they were telling us how Donald Trump was a fascist Nazi sympathizer.  A few weeks from now, they will be clamoring for his removal under the 25th Amendment. In the meantime, outlet after outlet, from CNN to Politico to NPR and beyond, has decided to weigh in on the team Trump is putting together. And they all seem very, very interested in whether or not he will hire “adults,” as they put it — or whether he will seek to pursue his evil autocratic intentions by hiring a bunch of ..

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“loyalists.”That’s a fascinating word, “loyalist.” It seems to have a lot of flexibility. If you like the president, it means something like “a dedicated public servant who will endeavor to help the duly elected leader of the nation accomplish the agenda that the people voted for.”  If you don’t like the president, it means “a toady fascist bent on dismantling democracy and installing a dictatorship.”So you can understand the outrage at the heart of most of the media chatter about Trump “hiring loyalists.”Let’s be clear: Every president, every single one, without exception, seeks to hire loyalists. Yes, you can pine for the golden age of yore and Lincoln’s vaunted “Team of Rivals,” but face it: Bill Clinton hired loyalists, as did George Bush, as did Barack Obama.  Or you can long for the John Boltons of the world who claim (falsely) to have frustrated the worst of Trump’s passions the first time around.But you are living in a fantasy world if you think a president would seek to add guardrails to his own administration.Only a child, or possibly the editorial board of The New York Times, would think Eric Holder, for example, wasn’t an absolute loyalist for Obama.Cabinet members, and indeed every single one of the roughly 4,000 jobs that any president is charged with filling in an administration, ar...