There is a term for people like Ajit Pai taking leading roles and it is corporate capture. This has been happening to other government agencies and it is a real risk to a democracy. These people have a single goal and that is to serve corporate interests. We have seen this happen in several agencies under the current administration.
The problem with these rules made by executive fiat is that the next admin can just reverse them. And that cuts both ways.<p>The only way to get real change these days is having Congress and the President be the same party, which really is a shame.
Why does a US President have so much power in seemingly appointing incompetent political hacks or party donors to all sorts of important roles ???.<p>In most cases a country has a professional civil service where political hackery are kept to a minimum and policy making is decided by the ministers and it all filters down.