Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth are unqualified — Senate Republicans should reject them

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated three political hacks to highly sensitive and important federal positions: Rep. Matt Gaetz to be attorney general, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to be director of National Intelligence and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be secretary of Defense.

All three nominees have the same disqualifying characteristics: no experience in the substance of the respective agencies to which they have been nominated, and no prior background in managing an organization...