Many of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees don't have the gravitas or institutional experience in dealing with giant bureaucracies to serve eff ectively, critics say. That whining you hear is the sound of progress. Trump, who spent his business career in real estate taking a wrecking ball to what doesn't work and then building luxury in its place, staked his campaign message to American voters on the need to do the same with Washington.
You're not going to get renewal and reform from Cabinet appointees who figure that the place looks good overall but just maybe needs a little bit of paint. You need human bulldozers. One of the few nominees that the establishment actually accepts proves the rule: Florida Sen.
Marco Rubio as secretary of state. Even Democrats have said he's a viable candidate for the job because he knows the ropes. Which is really just another way of saying he's on board with the bipartisan neocon talking points that don't distinguish between Republican and Democrat positions much , underscoring the need for an anti-establishment force that's skeptical of both establishment parties and whatever systemic corruption underpins some head-scratching consensus.
A tweet from October 2015 by Trump speaks volumes about why he may have chosen Rubio. "Sheldon Adelson is looking to give big dollars to Rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little puppet," Trump wrote, referring to the late top Republican donor and passionate Israel advocate. T.