Trump's Treasury Secretary pick, the impossible-to-pronounce Steven Mnuchin, ran a bank that tried to force people out of their homes without any actual cause, was accused of of "widespread misconduct" by an initial California Department of Justice investigation (that Kamala Harris declined to prosecute), and cultivated close ties to the LAPD by funding disturbing "scared straight"-style boot camps for young children.

Trump's pick for National Security Adviser, former Defense Intelligence Agency head Michael Flynn, allegedly met the leader of a far-right Austrian party founded by Nazis with direct ties to the Kremlin this week. 

Related: An analysis of Flynn's tweets by the Southern Poverty Law Center shows the disturbing extent of his fanatic Islamophobic beliefs.

Ryan Zinke, Montana's sole representative and Trump's pick to head the Dept. of the Interior, has roots in Teddy Roosevelt-style Republican conservationism, but while trying to attain higher office, sold out to the oil, gas, and coal industries. As it so often goes.

Related: Did Trump pick Zinke just because Donald Jr. wants to kill things on federal land?

As CEO of the WWE, Linda McMahon was known for crushing small businesses. She is incoming head of the Small Business Administration.

Offshore documents obtained by Süddeutche Zeitung (recently of the Panama Papers) reveal Trump's Secretary of State pick Rex Tillerson (who sounds like a villain from Dallas?) to have been the head of a joint US-Russian oil company for the past 18 years.

By the end of Elaine Chao's two-term tenure at George W. Bush's Department of Labor, her administration was known for favoring business over workers, violating its mandate to enforce laws protecting workers. A 2008 Government Accountability Office report into the DoL's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) put that squarely in perspective:

"Posing as fictitious complainants, GAO filed 10 common complaints with WHD district offices across the country. The undercover tests revealed sluggish response times, a poor complaint intake process, and failed conciliation attempts, among other problems. In one case, a WHD investigator lied about investigative work performed and did not investigate GAO’s fictitious complaint."

The liberals who excused the precedent set by President Obama's wild expansion of Dick Cheney's unconstitutional surveillance state, unconstitutional foreign wars, limitless worldwide drone program, and intense and record-breaking classification and censorship of government documents don't look very good right now.

In case you want to know what it's like inside the Trump transition, a bird's-eye view, as cited in this exposé of the chaos that even has Giuliani backpedaling.

A useful guide broken out by executive actions, legislation, international obligations, federal agencies, and little things like Common Core and Syrian refugees: "Twenty Things Donald Trump Said He Wanted to Get Rid of as President."

Newt Gingrich said in June that he wanted to bring back the McCarthyist House Un-American Activities Committee. Now that he's up for a cabinet position, you should consider using encryption.

In no particular order, a list of things President Trump wants to do shortly after taking office, according to a deeply-reported September Evan Osnos feature:

—Renounce America's participation in the Paris Agreement restrictions on emissions

—Authorize the Keystone XL Pipeline (the new Canadian PM is a supporter)

—Pause the federal government's Syrian refugee resettlement operation

—Direct the Department of Justice to give priority to his enemies—Amazon, perhaps, or Hillary Clinton

—Follow through with his deportation promises—which he has already reaffirmed

—"Renegotiate" the Iran nuclear deal—which was conducted throught the UN Security Council, so it's a bit more difficult than he may be anticipating—which would be a "gift" to Iran, according to a Carnegie Endowment expert

—Apply tariffs independent analyts say could trigger a trade war costing four billion American jobs

Despite Trump's rhetoric about the size of the government, many conservatives have rejected that notion in the face of his actual proposed policies. Altogether, it's not difficult to make the argument that Trump wants to make his government even bigger.

President-elect Trump's apparent desire for a huge government doesn't jibe at all with House Speaker Paul Ryan's agenda. Titled "A Better Way," Ryan repackaged his same tired, dangerous austerity government arguments to appeal to Republicans—which was entirely unsuccessful, by the way—and is already publicly disagreeing with Trump on basic things like whether the government is going to build a "deportation force" or not.

He also tipped his hand as to when he's going to get his agenda on Trump's desk. (We remind you here that Trump possibly cannot read?) “Much of this you can do through budget reconciliation," Ryan said at a conference last month, referring to a controversial process allowing for "expedited consideration" of money-related legislation.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, "In the Senate, reconciliation bills aren’t subject to filibuster and the scope of amendments is limited, giving this process real advantages for enacting controversial budget and tax measures."