Trump's shock-and-awe approach to transition is both shocking and awful

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : "Perhaps most outlandish, Trump selected Matt Gaetz, a Florida congressman and "Make America great again" provocateur, for attorney general.
70% : "A transition that's so smooth it'll be as smooth as it can get," Trump said.
64% : Well, Trump is going to move the track by many feet."
49% : Adding to the mix, Trump named Mike Huckabee, 69, as ambassador to Israel.
46% : Then, on Thursday, Trump delivered the coup de grace by saying he will nominate Robert Kennedy Jr, 70, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
44% : "Trump will not be president for another two months but he is already dominating the Washington agenda again.
41% : The lineup raised fears of authoritarianism or chaos - or both - once Trump and his allies are back in the Oval Office.
39% : "Trump, who has promised not to be a "dictator" except on "day one", will enter office with far fewer guardrails and checks on his power than last time.
39% : But when Trump takes the oath of office on 20 January, his team will be expected to hit the ground running.
35% : On Tuesday night Trump picked Pete Hegseth as his defence secretary.
24% : "Trump also announced that Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, will serve as the next homeland security secretary, responsible for everything from border protection and immigration to disaster response and the Secret Service.
23% : Trump said the pair will reduce government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut waste and restructure federal agencies.
18% : "Trump has long said the biggest mistake of his first term was choosing the wrong people.
16% : Having beaten Vice-President Kamala Harris in the 5 November election, Trump is determined to avoid that mistake second time around.
12% : "A day later Trump named Tulsi Gabbard, 43, a former Democratic congresswoman and critic of the Biden administration, as his director of national intelligence.
8% : John Bolton, a former national security adviser to Trump, described it as "the worst nomination for a cabinet secretary in American history".

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