16. Big open question is how do leaders of American capitalism, so dependent on trade, react to a president that wants to undermine system?
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17. It's interesting all this is happening in transition period. I.E. before Trump has to deal with actual government & bureaucracy.
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18. Trump (and I suspect people around him like Bannon) are trying to chart a course before bureaucracy can start stonewalling them.
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19. The rigmarole about Secretary of State fits into the idea that the Trump inner circle is afraid their agenda will be curtailed by gov't
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20. Needless to say, we're in a very dangerous situation. Major unknown is any pushback Trump will get from GOP, deep state, & business
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21. GOP, deep state & big business all want things from Trump (tax cuts, arms build up) but also have reason to fear him.
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22. So there is a race between extracting as much benefit from Trump's presidency as they can (tax cuts) & pushing back at his heterodoxy
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25. Will Trump's foreign policy revolution succeed? Unlike Nixon or Cheney, Trump (and Bannon) don't seem to know bureaucracy well.
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26. Other presidents can draw on cadre of policy makers from think tanks & universities (AEI for neo-cons, Brookings for Dems). Trump can't
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27. There are some shrewd foreign policy thinkers who are sympathetic to aspects of Trumpism (say Andrew Bacevich or Stephen Walt).
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28. But as far as I can tell Trump & Bannon have made no effort to reach out to such potential intellectual allies.
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