Trump Time Capsule #76: Brain Trust Includes 'Death Panels' Purveyor

Donald Trump embraces his status as an outsider to the world of politics and policy. He says that once in office, he would attract “all the best people.” He could make the great deals, and then they could work out all the little details.

This week he announced a group of these best people, including a former lieutenant governor of New York named Elizabeth “Betsy” McCaughey.

For those who have followed national policy debates over the past generation, this is not an encouraging sign. McCaughey has been a central, causal factor in two of the major failures of public information and decision-making since the early 1990s. Thus selecting her sends a signal roughly comparable to announcing a famous anti-climate-science figure as an environmental advisor or an anti-vaccine activist for counsel on public health....
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/08/trump-time-capsule-76-brains-trust/495725/?utm_source=feed