Statecraft

Why Trump is right to hire his biggest critic

A lot of Trump supporters and detractors are still in a state of shock after learning Thursday that the President-elect is meeting with 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to discuss the Secretary of State position. Considering the extremely harsh words Romney had for Trump during the campaign, including a nationally televised speech where he repeatedly blasted Trump as a phony a fraud and a con man, this potential partnership seems hard to fathom. But some deeper reflection shows three key reasons that Romney is really the perfect choice.

The first and probably most important reason is the fact that the nastiness of the 2016 election needs a defining moment of closure. President-elect Donald Trump is not going to be able to govern and the country is not going to be able to function properly unless he forgives a lot of the people who blasted him and they in turn forgive him.