Identity politics run amok: Why does the Biden administration keep making such embarrassing hires?

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The news that a prominent Energy Department official has been sent packing by the Biden administration shouldn’t come as a surprise. Sam Brinton, the (former) senior-most nonbinary member of the administration, has been accused of stealing multiple suitcases carrying items worth thousands of dollars.

The real question is why Brinton was hired in the first place.

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