Crypto News: Trump and his allies are in control of the GOP

Last week's must-read reporting was Jonathan Swan's series at Axios exploring the efforts of former President Donald Trump's supporters and other Trump-friendly Republicans to prepare to staff a potential Trump second term.

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During the presidential nomination competition in 2015-2016, Republican party actors generally opposed Trump, in part because they considered him a risky general election candidate and in part because they were not convinced he would be reliable on matters of public policy.
When push came to shove, however, the elected officials, party professionals, interest group activists, party-aligned media figures and others who might have prevented his nomination chose not to challenge him.
Trump's White House was always a disorganized mess, and he had quite a number of White House staffers and executive branch choices who wouldn't have been part of a Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio presidency. But there were plenty of conventional choices, and most of the unusual ones were Republicans on the fringes of the party, not (in most cases, at least) Trump's personal loyalists.
Four years of a Trump presidency, however, have turned the fringes into the party mainstream, and the fringes have evolved in Trump's direction.

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