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I’ve Figured Out Who Should Head Our Shadow Cabinet!

February 12, 2025February 11, 2025

But first . . .

It seems more than a little odd to be linking to Glenn Beck, but those of you who’ve become intrigued by the PRKR story will find another episode of sorts here.   (Links to the official episodes are here and here.)



Also . . .

They knew then and they know now — including Glenn Beck (2 minutes).



And now . . .

THE PERFECT SHADOW CABINET

In the U.K., Canada, and Australia among others, the out-of-power opposition party leader routinely forms a shadow Cabinet.

A lot of people have floated the idea of doing that here.

But how?

And who would lead it?

Ken Martin, the DNC’s excellent new chair?

To capture national attention (or else why bother?), it probably needs to be someone more famous.

Kamala?  Hillary?  Bill?  Barack?  Michelle?  Al Gore?  PoliticsGirl?  They are all awesome — but I don’t see any of that happening.

Nor can we seen to be anointing someone as our 2028 nominee.  There’s a primary process for that.

You know whom I’d like to see?

Bernie!  He’s tough, he’s not running in 2028, he tells it like it is — and he could choose a Cabinet of much younger people to do TV appearances of their own.  Tony Blinken or Jake Sullivan for State; Elizabeth Warren or Robert Reich for Treasury; Lloyd Austin or General Mattis or General Kelly for Defense; Preet Bharara or Dan Goldman or Adam Schiff — or Liz Cheney! — for Attorney General; Atul Gawande for Health & Human Services; Van Jones for Labor; Pete Buttigieg for Transportation; Jennifer Granholm for Energy . . . you get the idea.

Bernie is further to the left than the country is, but that’s okay.  He’s “authentic” and fun to watch and, on the kitchen-table issues most people really care about, may actually be dead center.

If our 2028 nominee* were a bit to the right of Bernie, that would be fine.  Maybe even a plus to be seen as more moderate.  But in the meantime, Bernie and his shadow Cabinet would be giving the other side hell, whenever and wherever warranted.  Which seems, at least for now, to be 24/7.



Happy 216th Birthday, Honest Abe.  Trump is so not the kind of Republican you had in mind.



*Assuming our democracy survives that long.

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