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A Toxic White House Culture Gets More So

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The new White House communications director called up a writer for the New Yorker two nights ago. What he said isn’t going to make it any easier for this administration to staff up. I write about it at Bloomberg View today: “It’s useful to all of us to have a White House that can attract talent. But it’s those Americans who are most sympathetic to Trump and his agenda who should have the deepest worries.”

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Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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