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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2019

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2019

      2. The grounds for impeaching Trump are that he used the office of president for corrupt ends. That's amply evident in the hearings. It's worth distinguishing Trump's corruption from the more proper authority a president has over civil service.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2019

      3. The American national security establishment is non-partisan but that doesn't mean it's non-political. It has a very strong institutional agenda. You don't get into this line of work if you aren't committed to a robust version American global hegemony.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Nov 2019

      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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        1. Jamie Dissent‏ @JamesDissent 15 Nov 2019
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          This tension can exist but I don't see it here. Seems pretty clear to me these officials were doing their best to carry out what was *stated* U.S. policy. The problem here was (yes) Trump created a backchannel solely to use/abuse his powers to personally benefit himself.

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        1. The Deficit Respecter‏ @Zdlax 15 Nov 2019
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          Yes, exactly. From what it seems, the lion's share of the testimony hasn't been "it's bad because it's corrupt" but "it's bad AND 'corrupt' because it was in the service of a foreign policy shift that we, the blob, absolutely loathe."

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        1. NYPop18‏ @NYPop18 15 Nov 2019
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          The testimony isn't pitting the "establishment's" foreign policy against alternative Trump foreign policy, but rather establishing that Trump had no non-corrupt alternative policy. It's also equally importantly drawing a graphic contrast between public servants and Trump.

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        2. Emmett Shane‏ @schizoidman 15 Nov 2019
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          2. Then Dems can underscore how Trump embracing Putin’s counter narrative and bullying Ukraine into investigating it factors in to a wider effort by the White House to cover up collusion with the Kremlin in 2016.

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        3. Berlin.AlexanderPlatz‏ @WillMcJ 15 Nov 2019
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          You mean the collusion that 22 months of Mueller investigations failed to substantiate?

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        1. Dierk Groeneman‏ @amish_hooligan 15 Nov 2019
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          This is so correct: "the most valid ground to impeach Trump is that he used his office for a corrupt purpose, to get a foreign government to slime a rival politician" but Dems can't go there because of how corrupt they are themselves.

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