Massive stimulus packages require expertise, professionalism and skill to execute, and it’s not at all clear that the Trump administration has enough of that to make this program work
. FDR hired capable pros—people with decades of experience in law, social policy, economics and other fields. Trump’s closest advisers are his son-in-law, who inherited a real estate company, and his daughter, who before entering public service operated a fashion line.
The men and women leading these initiatives were pros, though they didn’t always agree with one another. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, a progressive Republican attorney from Illinois, was a veteran Chicago campaign manager with close ties to prominent social reformers and experience running relief projects in Europe.
The same spirit of professionalism pervaded other New Deal departments and agencies.
In short, it was the most impressive collection of experts, bureaucrats and operators that had ever staffed a single presidential administration, and it established the basis for a wartime and post-war tradition that saw the best and brightest minds of both political parties, from across the ideological spectrum, gravitate to government for at least a portion of their careers.The Depression, which had been building for several years, had spiraled out of control.
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