In the famous scene from Casablanca, the corrupt local prefect of police, Captain Louis Renault, suddenly demands that the Café Américain, owned and operated by Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine, be closed. “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” barks Renault, before a croupier hands him a pile of his own winnings.

Earlier this week, Politico revealed the shocking news that both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are set to be frozen out of Joe Biden’s cabinet. Realistically speaking, there were never particularly great odds on either Sanders or Warren becoming part of any administration led by Biden — a lifelong centrist who visibly prefers Republicans to anyone from the Left, the president-elect would probably have carried out a similar transition even if the Democrats had secured the landslide many had until recently expected.

Though the summer months elicited a flurry of frenzied speculation about an ambitious liberal agenda on the near horizon, one only needed to take a cursory glance at Biden’s Wall Street donors, senior advisers, and public rhetoric to see what the character of his administration would almost certainly be. The appointment of figures from the likes of Uber, Lyft, Amazon, and JPMorgan to his transition team certainly does little to alter the general impression. An incoming Democratic administration headed by Joe Biden? It’s simply shocking to find gambling going on in such a place.