Donald Trump, winner of the United States presidential election, could appoint “some marginal figures” to senior positions in his administration, warns Peter Feaver, professor of political science at Duke University in North Carolina, in an article for the Foreign Affairs (FA) magazine. . Trump won this state.
The analyst recalled that during the electoral race the Republican spoke of plans to appoint a former National Football League player and a Republican who failed to reach the Senate. Herschel Walker responsible for the new missile defense system, and called the idea “crazy.”
“You can appoint people like a retired general to national security positions. Michael Flynn either Steve Bannonwhose problems with the law generally prevent them from performing national security functions. Either way, he will arrive with a team determined to implement many of the same schemes that less radical figures managed to dissuade Trump from implementing in his first term.” —Feaver writes.
Flynn was Trump’s national security adviser and admitted to lying to the FBI as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Bannon is a political strategist and former Trump ally who served time in late October on charges of contempt of court. Congress, including the attempt by Trump supporters to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The political scientist notes that during Trump’s first term, Trump appointed three categories of officials to his administration: people with real experience, this was the largest group; “most of the good that happened was his merit,” writes Feaver; senior officials, a smaller but more influential group, were responsible for national security matters; and “agents of chaos,” “true believers in MAGA” (Make America Great Again, Trump’s motto), a small but also influential group. The professor warned that during the Republican’s second term, the “radicals” would take power.
