What do progressives make of Joe Biden's cabinet picks so far? | Nathan Robinson

The bad news for progressives is that there has not yet been a single person announced for an official post that the left can be enthusiastic about

Joe Biden has now announced his transition team and a number of his cabinet appointees, giving us some idea of how he can be expected to govern. It's very much true that personnel is policy" and that the records of the people he chooses for key roles can indicate what kind of president he intends to be.

How are the picks so far? Well, the bad news for progressives is that there has not yet been a single person announced that the left can be enthusiastic about. The best that can be said of the nominees is that they are generally not as bad as we might have feared". Some of the choices are deeply concerning. Others border on the unobjectionable. Most are relatively predictable, as Biden is making it clear he intends to hew as closely as possible to the Democratic politics of the Obama years. Here are a few worthy of note.