Donald Trump added two familiar names, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, to his quite small transition team.
The two cradle Democrats and former presidential candidates endorsed Trump in recent days. They represent a disaffected but not tiny section of the political spectrum of not very ideological people who likely lean left on many issues but regard the Democratic Party as profoundly corrupt and operating as though inside an ideological straitjacket.
Yes, Trump wants them to transition him from candidate to president. But he really wants them to transition a segment of voters toward his candidacy.
The endorsements of Trump, and Trump’s effective endorsement of Kennedy and Gabbard via his empowering them to steward his incoming administration, give a permission slip to those repulsed by Democrats but withholding their support from Trump.
Whether they use that permission slip awaits confirmation.
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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.
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