Biden is giving the left nothing for their investment

There was never going to be a Secretary Elizabeth Warren at the Treasury or a Secretary Bernie Sanders at the Department of Labor

Joe Biden and cabinet choices.
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Apparently people pay hundreds of dollars a year to have airport-sized bottles of various products sent to them in what are known as "subscription boxes." The whole thing is obviously just a marketing scheme, a way for companies to profit from what we used to think of as free samples, but enthusiasts like to think that they are getting expertise in addition to plastic packaging waste. I suppose the boxes save you the trouble of having to decide what kind of lavender-scented self care oil or "craft" gin you want.

This, I gather, is more or less how President-elect Joe Biden is staffing his administration. A single D.C. consulting firm will probably supply his nominees for secretary of state, secretary of defense, and national security adviser. Thanks to loopholes that allow consultants to work as lobbyists in everything but name, there is simply no way of knowing what powerful interests, both domestic and otherwise, these people are beholden to. But we are going to have our first female director of national intelligence, and probably our first female defense secretary as well.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.