Harris says she would appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected
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In a clip of a CNN interview scheduled to air in full Thursday night, Harris said she was committed to welcoming diverse points of view.

“I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences,” Harris said. “And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”

  • eran_morad@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Bro. Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the Prez. No appointee can just go balls-out and wreck shit.

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      21 days ago

      The very reason they exist is to advise the President. If I wanted Republicans advising anyone, I’d vote Republican.

      • HessiaNerd@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        Honest question, without judgement. What would a Republican secretary of Veterans Affairs do that you would find so objectionable?

        Would it change you mind if I made the (admittedly, hopefully not so) wild claim that by giving that person some power, you could destroy the Republican party forever. They would be put in history books next to the Whigs.

        • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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          21 days ago

          What would a Republican secretary of Veterans Affairs do that you would find so objectionable?

          I assume they would argue to privatize things and further attempts to dismantle the very concept of government. The republican party has no good ideas.

          • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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            21 days ago

            Also, I imagine they would look for ways to deny benefits to transgender veterans, veteran survivors of sexual assault who got discharged under corrupt circumstances, and other veterans they dislike for hateful reasons

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          21 days ago

          No, because that claim is not remotely connected to reality. This isn’t even the first time a Democratic president has appointed a Republican cabinet member. Thinking that would be the death of the Republican party is insane.

          And the parties have difference on the VA! It’s socialized medicine involved in reproductive and gender care for veterans while being a prime target for privatization. There isn’t a cabinet position where there aren’t political differences.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          21 days ago

          Would it change you mind if I made the (admittedly, hopefully not so) wild claim that by giving that person some power, you could destroy the Republican party forever.

          It might if you could back that claim up. (And I’m not saying you can’t, just that I don’t see how.)

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      21 days ago

      They’ll just make conservatively flavored decisions regarding corporations and regulation and social rights. Cabinet staff matters, and there’s plenty of room between “balls-out” bad and “good”. At absolute best a Republican is going to give us reliable centrism, but there are plenty of Democrats for whom that would be their worst and we might actually see Democratic policy enacted where possible.

      All to impress the vanishing handful of “good Republicans” at the expense of all the Democrats who don’t feel the need to rehabilitate them for the shitty ideas they had well before Trump.