So, most of the knowledge of what levers are exploited is going to come out of industry. I don’t expect him to know a common persons problems, but he might know how to help.

When Obama was nominated I pretty instantly had my pulse raised over Tom Wheeler (FCC) and Tim Geitner (treasury), only to find myself surprised by Tom. His pick Jessica Rosenworcel is probably the best thing in my lifetime, and common carrier laws have only really held because he’s been ready to stick it to Comcast.

Geitner should be behind bars.

It really depends, and a lot of what’s on record from their time in industry is the company line. it’s kind of counter intuitive, but things like ‘pork’ in bills in congress get cooperation because they can seek new organizations of power.

Divide and conquer works on the powerful too.

The IRA and CHIPS Act were far from the progressive bills that they’ve been portrayed as in the media and by party apparatchiks. They’ve mostly benefited the kind of people Deese used to work with and for.

Additionally, to call Neera Tanden’s CAP progressive is absolute horseshit. She’s one of the foremost anti-left Democrat Twitter trolls and CAP is a on the right wing of the Democratic Party and awash in all kinds of corporate money and also funded by some of the governments with the worst human rights records in the world such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

He DOES actually sound like a very bad guy for anyone who’s into economic justice rather than the usual crumbs for regular people and loaves for the rich people, corporations, and foreign governments that are exploiting them and directly or indirectly killing innocent people.