Look at those Trump appointments! It brings to mind the GOP convention in 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice”—and an institutionalized journalist turned to his friend and said, “My gawd, he’s going to run as Goldwater!”

Well, Donald Trump has run as a disrupter, and one doesn’t disrupt by changing the spokes on the wheels, they change the wheels—or the car.  Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, identified the problems of the deep state and big government well, but, while slaying other monsters, in both cases, from tyranny and terrorism to a laggard economy, they were unable to do much about the government here.  

That’s a lesson Trump has learned—and he was not shy in what he campaigned on. The Democrats said the worst they could of him as well—and tried to destroy him.

And yet he won. Big. With a mandate. People heard and saw and said they want this. And Trump, with these picks, is going to govern … as Trump, just as the people wanted … a disrupter.