US Politics | A Return To Status Quo Of Establishment Politics

United States President Donald Trump is standing still, crying afoul about the presidential elections, but President-Elect Joe Biden is moving forward. As the big C word — Concession — is yet to come from the Trump campaign, Biden is more concerned with another C — Cabinet.

As Biden continues to name personnel for key positions, The Washington Post journalist Emily Rauhala captured the sentiment perfectly with a tweet, stating how politics is ephemeral and epitomised perfectly in Washington, where the Trump administration could be seen as an aberration with unconventional picks, and Biden is a return to the status quo of establishment politics.

As I previously wrote, Biden was seen to be running on an Obama 3.0 platform. A return of the old guard, the Obama era staffers and appointees, but more importantly less whimsical from the Trump era to more wonk-like of the Obama era.

Biden is said to put together the most diverse Cabinet including women, LGBTQ representatives, and people of colour — all this from a septuagenarian White male. But this was par for the course, given the predominantly White male Cabinet of the last four years, and Biden alluded to diversity in first starting he would be picking a woman as his Veep nominee, and second, his pick, Kamala Harris, a first-generation American.

But Vice Presidents are picked to win elections, and contrary to the proximity on the ballot, Vice Presidents are generally further away…