Power brokers

For the past few weeks since the election many Washington insiders have presented their views on Trump's policies and nominees and most have been negative in their assessments. If you are a person who has spent 20 or 30 years developing relationships with elected officials and un elected bureaucrats your source of information and influence is greatly limited by Trump's approach to government. Trump has refused to follow the old ways because he doesn't trust the inside power brokers and this leaves these people out in the cold. The new president is supposed to pick someone with experience in a department to run that department which means stay with the status quo. Robert McNamara was President of Ford Motors, then Secretary of Defense and then President of the World Bank. These are very different jobs but he had was are called transferable skills. His administrative and management abilities allowed him to head these organizations without having direct experience in them. These experienced, many behind the scenes operators, see their lines of information being disrupted meaning their ears to power will be blocked and they are not happy.