The media are freaking out over Trump’s Cabinet picks, because the freakout machine must be kept humming. But you can see the wheels turning there. If you’re a liberal Democrat, they assume you’re automatically qualified and super-intelligent. Because you’re a liberal Democrat.
Several Biden appointees lacked experience in their cabinet roles: Xavier Becerra didn’t have a health-care background, Alejandro Majorkas didn’t have national security resume, Jennifer Granholm had no energy experience, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg wasn’t a transportation whiz. The media engaged in zero freakouts over this, but now the anchors assert these people were vetted robustly.
From Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard to Matt Gaetz and Robert Kennedy Jr., the left-wing networks and newspapers saw nominees disqualified by ideology or inexperience or allegations of sexual assault….
