This is from the Washington Post:
Liberal advocacy groups are preparing blacklists of candidates for appointments to a Hillary Clinton administration, with one organization even producing opposition research to torpedo contenders they consider too soft on Wall Street or other corporate interests.
Planning for a Democratic victory on Nov. 8, these interest groups and like-minded lawmakers are laying the groundwork to push Clinton, if she is elected, to prove her progressive bona fides through early legislation and personnel appointments.
One liberal group has already forwarded to Clinton’s transition team the names of 150 acceptable appointees for economic positions, while others on the left are engaged in opposition research against prospects for administration jobs whom they see as unacceptable.
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Others whose service is being pushed include Tom Perez, President Obama’s labor secretary; Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-Md.), who lost a Senate primary in April; former senator Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.); Joseph Stiglitz, an economist and Columbia University professor; Heather C. McGhee, president of Demos, a liberal public-policy organization; and Lori Wallach, an expert on trade with the advocacy group Public Citizen.
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Advocates also see the U.S. trade representative, the SEC chair and the director of the National Economic Council as vital to their policy mission.
Stiglitz and Wallach have been critics of U.S. trade policy, and advocate some major changes. See, e.g., here and here.
What would it look like to have these long-standing critics of U.S. policy now in positions of influence over policy? Would they come up with constructive ways forward, or would they stand in the way of progress?
