A Guy Named Brian (he/him)<p>“While these cabinet officials will attend meetings and nod their heads at whatever Trump says, the early indications strongly suggest they won’t be setting policy. That will be reserved for the czars, the internal White House appointees that Trump has made in parallel, and who are key to the emerging vision of centralizing power under the president-elect’s thumb.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election2024</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CabinetSelections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CabinetSelections</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CabinetOfDeplorables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CabinetOfDeplorables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AutocracyAlert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutocracyAlert</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://prospect.org/politics/2024-11-14-trump-cabinet-doesnt-matter/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">prospect.org/politics/2024-11-</span><span class="invisible">14-trump-cabinet-doesnt-matter/</span></a></p>