1. Part of the drama we're seeing today and on Wednesday is the inherent tension between a professional civil service and Trump's desire for for personal control of government ("The United States, c'est moi")
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4. It's okay for president's to use backchannels or to over-ride the national security establishment (as JFK did with missile crisis, as Nixon did with China, as Obama did with Syria & Ukraine).What's not okay is to do this for corrupt ends, as Trump has.
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5. Some more thoughts on why we should disentangle the exact grounds for impeachment (corruption of the office) from larger debates about foreign policy. https://www.thenation.com/article/kent-taylor-impeachment-ukraine/ …
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A madman has the nuclear codes, but Jeet wants us to remember that American foreign policy has historically been problematic (in case anyone who follows Jeet doesn't already know that).
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