Another former career employee said staffers had hoped Trump would appoint "non-ideological" business-oriented Republicans who would improve the agency's technological and procurement shortcomings and make HUD run more efficiently.
But Trump seems to have no natural ideological or business financial base.
The religious liberty-contraception question provides an opportunity for three important factions within the Republican Party -- ideological libertarians, business interests, and social conservatives -- to agree on something.
John McCain hasn't bought the ideological line that protecting the environment is bad for business and bad for his party.
Still, it would be incorrect to suggest that hip-hop's family values are just ideological windowdressing for business realpolitik.
The history of history-education evaluation is littered with voguish pedagogy, statistical funny business, ideological arm wrestling, a disproportionate emphasis on trivia, and a protocol that insures that each generation of kids looks dim to its elders.
While the campaign against Mr. Hagel, a Republican, is not expected to cost more than a few million dollars, it suggests that the operatives running the independent groups and the donors that finance them — many of whom are millionaires and billionaires with ideological drive and business agendas that did not go away after the election — are ready to fight again.
This year is an opportunity for Washington to fully own up to its shameful role in destabilizing Guatemala and honor Arbenz for having the courage to lead one of Central America's first democracies — and send a signal that America has learned to stop placing its ideological concerns and business interests ahead of its ideals.
But, in fact, FDR has plenty of opposition from business, ideological conservatives, and racists who viewed New Deal reforms as an opening wedge toward government control of business, racial integration, and even socialism.
