“When people say these nominees are not qualified, they are perfectly qualified for what they are being put there for. They are being put there, not to run these departments, but to wreck these departments. By the standards of what Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and others are trying to do, deconsruct the administrative state. Steve Bannon quoted in the New York Times: ‘Donald Trump is a blunt force instrument applying blunt force trauma to the system.’ They want to destroy the system, not to build. So they’re very wll qualified for that.”

– John Heilemann, chief political columnist for Puck News,speaking on MSNBC

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