Politico list floats 'Democratic shadow cabinet' of political celebrities to combat Trump

Politico writer Bill Scher floated a database of 21 "heavy hitters" ranging from erstwhile Biden authorities officials to comedians connected Tuesday to signifier a "Democratic shadow cabinet" to instrumentality connected the Trump administration.

Scher sought to look beyond the "presidential wannabes" and item "accomplished radical with the quality to talk plainly and the credibility to puncture the Trump administration’s often Orwellian narratives" for his list.

One of his examples included New York Attorney General Letitia James serving arsenic "shadow" U.S. Attorney General aft her aggregate lawsuits against President Donald Trump earlier and during his 2nd term.

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Politico writer Bill Scher was 1 of aggregate radical implicit the past fewer months to suggest a "shadow cabinet" successful absorption to the Trump administration. ((Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

"Perhaps the astir effectual Democrats successful the state close present are the 22 Democratic authorities attorneys wide tying up Trump’s enforcement orders successful the courts. But lone 1 tin accidental she won a civilian fraud lawsuit against the Trump household concern with a $450 cardinal judgement, and that’s New York’s Letitia James," helium wrote.

Scher looked beyond politicians and erstwhile furniture members for much unorthodox suggestions, specified arsenic comedian Jon Stewart for Secretary of Veteran Affairs and erstwhile Golden Globes big Nikki Glaser arsenic Administrator of the Small Business Administration.

"OK, perceive maine retired connected this one. What is simply a comedian but a tiny concern entrepreneur and traveling contented salesperson?" Scher wrote. "Of course, Nikki Glaser’s worth to a Democratic shadiness Cabinet is not her heavy cognition of however authorities regulations interaction tiny businesses. It’s that she has go America’s Roaster-in-Chief, who tin fearlessly prime isolated the biggest celebrities from Tom Brady to Alec Baldwin."

He besides suggested Bill Nye to pb the Enviromental Protection Agency and for billionaire Mark Cuban to beryllium the Secretary of Commerce. 

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Gisele Fetterman, Jon Stewart and Nikki Glaser were among the names suggested by Scher for a shadiness cabinet. (Getty Images)

Scher listed much accepted Democratic figures specified arsenic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs arsenic Secretary of Education and Virginia gubernatorial campaigner Abigail Spanberger arsenic CIA Director. However, helium besides suggested Gisele Fetterman, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s wife, arsenic Secretary of Homeland Security based connected her acquisition arsenic an undocumented migrant.

"As Trump continues connected his assertive deportation campaign, fewer successful America tin amended personify and articulate what we suffer erstwhile we vilify radical who loved America capable to take to unrecorded here," Scher wrote.

Scher cited Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s telephone for a shadiness furniture arsenic portion of her code to reform the Democratic Party. 

Rep. Wiley Nickels, D-N.C., besides proposed a shadiness cabinet successful a Washington Post op-ed aft Trump’s predetermination successful November.

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