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The biggest shift in Washington in January

won't only be that Democrats are taking the White House. It will be that the Biden administration

will be, as Brendan Buck pointed out, delightfully boring. The people Biden has elected so far

are all careerists, as John Harris wrote this morning, from Secretary

of State nominee, Anthony Blinken, to Treasury nominee, Janet Yellen, to Chief of Staff

Ron Clayne, and everyone in between. This is an administration filled with people who have

deep experience in government and in the agencies they will be running. The Post puts it this way.

By design, they seem meant to project a dutiful competence,

as Biden creates a government overseen by those who have run it before.

They believe in a linear, plotting, purposeful, and standard policy process.

Impulsive policymaking and widespread leaks from competing factions in the administration are probably over.

Expect interviews with Biden to be a big deal, meaning they won't happen that often.

We'll complain and they won't really care.

His interview with Lester Holt will air on NBC tonight.

We can't imagine he'll pop into the briefing room with regularity or tweet his emotions.

This administration will be of the Georgetown

dinner variety, return to briefing books and policymaking by political professionals who aren't

likely to try to burn the White House down over petty disagreements and jockeying to get into the

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