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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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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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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https://slate.com/culture/2013/03/bob-woodward-and-gene-sperling-what-woodwards-john-belushi-book-can-tell-us-about-the-sequester-scandal.html …. Don't know if you ever read the Slate review of Woodward's book on Belushi that covers this kind of territory?
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yeah, that's great.
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