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DeVos, Rigged Polls, and Quitting Bureaucrats

Explain It to Me

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Donors Aren't Picking the Best People, Right?

I would draw a distinction between some of the people in the cabinet and the people like Devos, like Ben Carson. I've worked for a lot of years in nonprofits and the donors to those nonprofits are often not as knowledgeable as they think that they are. They're in fact very gently shielded from the fact that their ideas don't make sense or they don't know what they're talking about. One thing that can really fuck up an agency is if it becomes extremely leaky. Angie's become leaky when there's a lot of division over the right way forward. And so I actually kind of agree with Sarah Palin that not being able to do anything bad in whole backfire but

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