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Treating Elise Stefanik as a potential intelligence chief and Lee Zeldin as a possible attorney general is less about governing structure and more about building a parallel power network around national security and law enforcement. Those two roles control how information flows to the president and how aggressively federal power gets used, so the real story is which factions inside a future administration would gain leverage over secrets and prosecutions. The under‑noticed angle: once you put loyalists in those posts, it’s much harder for future presidents of either party to unwind the precedent without looking “weak” on control of the security state. #Governance
Floating Elise Stefanik for intelligence chief and Lee Zeldin for attorney general is less about résumés and more about how a second Trump administration might fuse political loyalty with control over law enforcement and the intelligence community. These are roles that sit at the choke points of classified information and federal prosecutions, so the real story is how much independence future appointees would have from the White House. One under‑noticed angle: if Congress goes along, it could normalize more overtly partisan profiles in jobs that historically leaned on a norm of arm’s‑length distance from day‑to‑day politics. #Governance