1. Over the last decade (at least) I've condemned Donald Trump in the strongest possible terms in countless words as a shitty human being & political figure. So I feel like I have licence to point out that not everything he does is bad.https://twitter.com/NYTimesAtWar/status/1018653857101025280 …
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4. This is not to say (pace Maureen Dowd &
@mtracey) that Trump is in any way a "dove" or believer in restraint. He isn't. He just prefers, in tradition of LeMay, to bomb rather than send ground troops. It's part of unilateralist tradition.Show this thread -
5. Anyways, it should be perfectly possible to oppose Trump in general & also support normalizing relations with North Korea, avoiding ground troops in Syria & negotiating an end to Afghan occupation.
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6. One caveat to all this is that even in areas where Trump's policies are broadly correct (say, normalizing relations with North Korea), the way he enacts those policies (ineptly, with many lies) is almost certain to lead to failure & possibly disaster.
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keep this George McGovern shit to yourself, Jeet.
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