Staffing a Second Trump Term

President Trump addresses a Cabinet meeting in August 2018. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
The bench is already shallow.

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W hat would a second Trump term look like, in the event that Donald Trump pulled out a surprise, come-from-behind victory in November? That’s really a few different, but related, questions: policy agendas, personnel, the shape of the Republican party, and the size of Trump’s support in Congress. Based on his public interviews, Trump himself seems to have no idea of what policies he wants to pursue, just as he seems to think that the most important parts of his first-term record are the ways in which people were unfair to him rather than anything he actually accomplished.

Of course, Trump entered

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