Please Politicize the State Department and FDA; It Beats the Alternative

The latest line of attack against President Donald Trump is that he's inserting politics into government matters. This has come up on at least two fronts recently — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech to the Republican National Convention, and the federal Food and Drug Administration's emergency-use approval of convalescent plasma as a therapy for Covid-19 patients. In both cases, it's an attack that reflects more poorly on the assumptions of Trump's critics than on Trump himself.

The latest line of attack against President Donald Trump is that he's inserting politics into government matters. This has come up on at least two fronts recently — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech to the Republican National Convention, and the federal Food and Drug Administration's emergency-use approval of convalescent plasma as a therapy for Covid-19 patients. In both cases, it's an attack that reflects more poorly on the assumptions of Trump's critics than on Trump himself.…