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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017

      1. I have a few brief thoughts on Gore Vidal, the National Enquirer, Donald Trump, Sino/Russian/American relations & 1970s science fiction.

      21 replies 49 retweets 151 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      2. Implicit in Trump's move to befriend Russia & take hard line against China is an inversion of USA policy of 1970s/1980s

      3 replies 20 retweets 42 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      3. In 1970/80s, USA had tacit alliance with China to contain Soviet Union. Now Trump seems to want to use Russia against China.

      17 replies 22 retweets 53 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
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      Jeet Heer Retweeted Laura Rozen

      4. The National Enquirer (whose publisher is Trump ally) spelled this out quite clearly here:https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/820423278489702401 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Laura Rozen @lrozen
      (Pro Trump) National Enquirer hears of plans for Trump summit with Putin too. via @Joyce_Karam pic.twitter.com/F76zEjSSLB
      3 replies 21 retweets 38 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
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      5. National Enquirer: "US-Russia Alliance to Destroy China." This is actually not a new idea but has flourished on fringes for decades.

      6 replies 21 retweets 37 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
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      6. In 1970s, far-right science fiction writers Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven started CoDominium series portraying US/USSR global rule

      12 replies 20 retweets 38 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
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      7. In 1986 Gore Vidal argued for US/USSR to ally against Sino-Japanese ("one billion grimly efficient Asiatics")pic.twitter.com/HehF6dpgUz

      15 replies 27 retweets 54 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
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      8. Vidal the supposed radical might seem world's away from Trump but there is an interesting congruence.

      3 replies 10 retweets 35 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017

      9. Vidal's 1986 essay The Empire Lovers Strike Back admirable for being honest about the racism of this vision:https://books.google.ca/books?id=m1GDAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=vidal+the+empire+lovers+strike+back+sino-japanese&source=bl&ots=iaZJwBfEAa&sig=-3KbAtfCdbclkJ4RKeGT31EbjW8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM9pLQirzRAhVF54MKHVd7DnAQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=vidal%20the%20empire%20lovers%20strike%20back%20sino-japanese&f=false …

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        2. ArchPundit‏ @archpundit 14 Jan 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I knew there was a good reason I hated that pompous jackass.

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        3. Sean O'Hara‏ @noculottes 14 Jan 2017
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          Still better than Norman Mailer. https://youtu.be/C8m9vDRe8fw 

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        1. Rahul K‏ @zrahul2020 14 Jan 2017
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          Gore Vidal fought against the Japanese in WWII may be that may have influenced him

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jan 2017
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          10. It's important to realize that so-called isolationism always had a strong strain of racism, usually in fear of "Yellow Peril"

          13 replies 18 retweets 50 likes
        3. (((Jeremy Posner)))‏ @jmp_nyc 14 Jan 2017
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          Every US flirtation with isolationism has ended catastrophically. Every single one.

          0 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
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