This has long term implications for American democracy which are fairly dire.https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/874770699226931235 …
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Mattis is a civilian in name only. And now he's the de facto unelected commander in chief because Trump is a gibbering fool.
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Not sure there's a long-term implication. Won't this sort of thing just end when the president isn't a gibbering fool?
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the cool part is a sizable amount of people in the right and center would cheer on a military coup
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Some parts of the left as well. Trump is murder on principles.
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Yes. Mattis is one of the better picks in that Cabinet & even so, that exemption bothered me from the beginning, and it's more troubling now
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I see where ur coming from but it could be worse.
#Trump could be making those decisions..can't believe I'm saying that ....Twilight ZoneThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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To be fair it was vital to the war effort that the President be able to pick a guy with a cool nickname.
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they heard it from the propaganda
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Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO until the same year he ran for President
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By this logic, Eisenhower wasn't a civilian, since he wore the uniform the year before
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It's another unprecedented innovation that's a step to fascism; also, it echoes Eisenhower, moderate conservative
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