Ryan Zinke Is the Blue Wave’s First Casualty
The interior secretary’s departure shows the extent of the new Democratic power—and also its limits.
by Robinson Meyer
Dec 15, 2018
3 minutes
In politics, you need a good villain. It is far easier for environmentalists to rail against Donald Trump for weakening the Clean Water Act than it is to rail against . And it was far easier for Democrats to criticize Scott Pruitt—the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator who resigned in June under not so much a cloud of corruption as a thundering cumulonimbus of it—than it has been for them to focus attention on Andrew Wheeler, his quieter and replacement.
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