2. There's a reasonable case for calm (as developed by @dandrezner & others) which is that Trump is an ineffective foreign policy president
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3. Case for calm: Trump is a BS artist & USA adversaries (including North Korea) see that, he doesn't know how to achieve ends he proclaims
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4. Case for calm (con't): Trump has mostly offloaded foreign policy on "the generals"; Kelly has weeded out the extremists (Bannon, Gorka)
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5. Case for calm (con't): to really push for big war you need Cheney liked command of process (which Trump lacks). So he's all bark, no bite
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6. The case for calm has some plausibility but....
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7. Even if we accept all the arguments for calmness, there are many,many ways things could spin out of control.
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8. Trump's empty bluster could embolden adversaries (ie Kim Jong-un) leading to instability & situation where the generals respond with war
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9. Also: if Trump did want to use nukes, there's nothing and nobody that can stand in his way. He's a nuclear absolute monarch.
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10. So. How worried should we be? Not paralyzed with fear, but Trump being president does make things markedly more dangerous.
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11. As always, the only remedy is politics: organizing and protesting. That a Republican like Corker sees the danger is a good sign.
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12. I think this is right and speaks to the limits of Corker's willingness to contain Trump:https://twitter.com/yeselson/status/917209307615236096 …
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13. There are proper constitutional remedies for Trump (impeachment, 25th amendment). But GOP congress won't use them now. Maybe never.
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