The Trump Administration transition in 2016 was chaotic compared to the 2024 transition, but it still produced good work through Landing Teams that assessed agency conditions and made recommendations about priorities, with people like Matt Pottinger laying the foundation for significant shifts in policy toward North Korea and China.
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“the initial transition which I heard was a very you know very uh chaotic but a lot of good work got done... Landing teams... the campaign is much more better much better organized than it was uh in 2016... Matt pottinger... laid the foundation for a fundamental shift in in uh in Trump Administration uh policy and approach to North Korea as well as China”
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The Comeback: The NYT’s Bret Stephens and the GoodFellows Recap the ’24 Election— Hoover InstitutionCreated: 8/11/2026, 1:46:20 AM
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