The most striking takeaway from that chart is how much Trump has turned away from government experience as a key résumé point for his Cabinet picks. While more than 90 percent of the Cabinets of both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama had government experience, fewer than half of Trump's nominees do. By contrast, Trump's Cabinet is much more CEO-heavy — including secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, who is in the midst of his confirmation hearings at the moment — than any of those of the past four presidents. (Interesting that there were zero Cabinet members with CEO experience in the Obama administration.)

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Trump critics will sound the alarm about the lack of people with government experience — or doctoral degrees — in his Cabinet. He's flying blind into the most complex bureaucracy in the world. He's putting a bunch of rich guys — just like him! — in all the positions of power.

Maybe. But remember these two things:

1. Trump won the election. That means he gets to pick whom he wants for his Cabinet.

2. The key to Trump's election was his promise of bringing radical change to Washington. Had he picked a bunch of establishment figures — Mitt Romney, for example, at State — he would have been abandoning that promise even before he officially became president.