Dispatches from the Culture Wars: What a Difference Four Years Makes

Yeah.

Update: Also yeah.

Here’s a post from TPM talking about the org chart that they’ve posted on the presidential transition site. TPM calls out this block in particular:

There’s something about definitively seeing “The Constitution” at the top of all branches, and seeing the VP definitively inside the executive. I felt a small bit of relief, not a lot, just a little. Like a ship’s passenger on the deck after a violent storm at sea, still holding, white-knuckled, to the rails, for minutes after the storm has passed, and just getting the idea to convince the fingers that they might not have to hold so tightly anymore.