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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23. As my colleague
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@brianbeutler's interpretation of GOP gamble is here:https://newrepublic.com/article/139013/gops-insanely-reckless-trump-gamble …5 replies 194 retweets 405 likes -
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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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29. So Trump/Bannon have a radical foreign policy agenda but how to they implement it when state dept. bureaucracy will be hostile?
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30. So: there is an intent behind Trump's foreign policy antic but likely result is not new policy but an epic clusterfuck of confusion.
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