9. The upshot is Trump has been slow to hire & has hired some conventional Republicans he distrusts (Mattis, McMaster).
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10. Generally, Trump/Bannon have been able to get their ideological allies in power is White House jobs not requiring Senate approval.
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11. And the few Trumpist they've gotten in have run into problems: Flynn and now Gorka.
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12. Tangentially: Sanders (or future Sanders-like candidate) will face same problem which is why USA needs socialist think tanks.
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13. Although I think a President Sanders would have a rich pool of academics to draw from. Secretary of Education Fredric Jameson.
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14. Anyways, Trump's staffing difficulties fuel gov't dysfunction. Personnel is policy but also paralysis and paranoia.
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15. I have some more thoughts on all this here:https://newrepublic.com/article/141351/roots-risks-trumps-dysfunction …
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16. True, Trump has hired from Heritage. But these people don't share his worldview & Trump doesn't trust them: https://twitter.com/M_Feeney/status/842402077380866048 …
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17. One mystery is why Trump/Bannon didn't turn to possibly sympathetic realist academics (Bacevich,
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I wouldn't say they are realist but there is stuff they want to do which is compatible with realism.
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I love your twitter, but this glosses over 60 plus years of intense suspicion and antipathy between these groups.
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