Now that Rep. Liz Cheney has misplaced her main to a Trumpist Republican in Wyoming, it’s time for President Biden to think about appointing her to his cupboard. Political tensions have risen to new ranges for the reason that Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. Bringing a Republican into the administration would cool partisan temperatures and unite the nation in assist of the rule of regulation.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt used this technique when the U.S. divided sharply over how to reply to Hitler’s aggression. In June 1940, he appointed Henry Stimson and Frank Knox as secretaries of battle and the Navy, respectively—demonstrating that stalwart Republicans would cross political strains to assist FDR’s coverage of aiding European democracies below menace of Nazi invasion. Republican leaders had been enraged. However earlier than lengthy, the 2 appointees helped forge bipartisan congressional assist for the president and labored with him to steer the allied forces to victory.
