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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Sep 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted David Axelrod

      1. Bob Woodward is indeed very good good at selling books. But having read the two previous books he's written on Trump, I want to extend a few cautions about his new book and its supposedly earth-shattering revelations about General Milley.https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1438656654342557697 …

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      David AxelrodVerified account @davidaxelrod
      Is there anybody better at rolling out a book than Bob Woodward?
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Sep 2021

      2. Woodward is best seen as the ne plus ultra of access journalism elevating the form away from daily journalism into a kind of court history. Like all court historians, he relies on the gossip of courtiers. This has some value, but courtiers tend to be self-serving.

      7:20 AM - 17 Sep 2021
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Sep 2021

          3. It's usually fairly easy to figure out which courtiers Woodward is relying on: they tend to be the ones who are shown in a heroic light as the pivots of momentous events. In Fear, Rob Porter & Gary Cohn allegedly saved us from Trump's worst instincts.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Sep 2021

          4. The self-serving account of courtiers adds some color to the historical record, but it misses the big events: it's business history informed by office gossip rather than economics. In the case of Trump, what Woodward tells nothing about how GOP enabled Trump.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Sep 2021

          5. The Milley revelations have raised cries of coups and treason. But reading between the lines, it looks like Milley stayed within the book. To the extent he played any uncomfortably outsized role it was due to Trump's incompetence and (more crucially) congressional dereliction

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Sep 2021

          6. The big story is institutional: GOP elite going all in for Trump, rendering moot all constitutional remedies (impeachment, 25th Amendment), offloading check duties on military. Woodward's methods don't allow for this story to be told.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/coup-and-countercoup?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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        1. Random Individual‏ @mmillsrat 17 Sep 2021
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          Waiting for the big Genji exposé.

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