Rahm in someways serves as a GOP model of organized and almost ruthless, a my way or the highway. The GOP has had no shortage of such types in the last eight years. And the crack the whip party organization to match. Suffice it to say, that kind of GOP discipline has not served out country well the past eight years.
Yet, in the grand scheme of things, organization and discipline are supposed to be virtues. And I submit they can be, but were not, for the GOP, because of two main reasons. First, any new policy has to be implemented, initial planning is never perfect, and like a building, it takes a sound foundation. And the flexibility to make mid course corrections. And for the GOP, it was the lack of flexibility, the philosophy must be right even though the results stink inflexibility which was elevated to a new level of unreality by the GOP. The second GOP failure, especially evident in Iraq and Afghanistan, was a lack of hit the ground running
commit the resources. Doing it on the cheap, never works, and it has allowed well in trenched insurgencies to form up in both countries.
In many ways, Rahm will be the go to guy and the main whipper snapper. If he lacks pragmatism, he will fail in the same manner the GOP failed, but also has the same potential to be what we need.