{"id":4094,"date":"2020-12-27T15:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2020-12-27T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T15:38:38","slug":"joe-bidens-team-of-careerists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden\u2019s Team of Careerists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Perhaps the closest equivalent is George H.W. Bush, who relied on decades-old relationships in Washington to fill his administration. The next four successors \u2014Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump \u2014 all arrived from outside Washington or after a very short tenure here, and had to integrate personal loyalists into the Washington firmament. In Biden\u2019s case, these two groups are exactly the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s also notable is how much endurance his team has shown. In most cases they started their Washington careers as prodigies, with impressive jobs at young ages. Now, most are deep into middle age, toiling for a boss who is well past it, as they finally grasp top prizes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/11\/24\/joe-bidens-team-of-careerists-440177\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/11\/24\/joe-bidens-team-of-careerists-440177<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Perhaps the closest equivalent is George H.W. Bush, who relied on decades-old relationships in Washington to fill his administration. The next four successors \u2014Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump \u2014 all arrived from outside Washington or after a very short tenure here, and had to integrate personal loyalists into the Washington firmament. In Biden\u2019s case, these two groups are exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s also notable is how much endurance his team has shown. In most cases they started their Washington careers as prodigies, with impressive jobs at young ages. Now, most are deep into middle age, toiling for a boss who is well past it, as they finally grasp top prizes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[375,780],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biden","tag-joe-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}