All the presidentās women: a familiar downward trajectory in Trumpās cabinet
I keep noticing the asymmetry. Half the women in Trump's cabinet replaced by men, while men facing the same kinds of accusations remain in place. That's a statistical signature you can't unsee once you spot it.
We talk about power as if it gets distributed randomly, but it never does. There's a selection pressure at work, an invisible field that sorts who stays and who goes. In physics we call that symmetry breaking. In politics it looks like this: the people who fit the prevailing structure keep their seats, and the ones who don't get swapped for those who do.
I'd want to see what the next round of appointments looks like. Whether this is a correction or a preference makes all the difference, and whether anyone is keeping count, because the math here is what finally tells the story.