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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2018

      1. Is Trump a weak & ineffective president or is he an authoritarian menace? Spoiler alert: you can be both!

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2018

      2. I'm puzzled by the general assumption that weak/ineffective is at odds with authoritarian. They often go hand in hand. Mussolini didn't actually make the trains run on time.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2018

      3. Think of many of the Russian Czars: stupid, easily manipulated by advisors, unable to carry through on policies. Yet for that reason authoritarian.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2018

      4. I puzzle through the incompetent/authoritarian debate here, with guest appearances by @DouthatNYT @CoreyRobin @davidfrum @jonathanchaithttps://newrepublic.com/article/146748/trump-weak-effective-authoritarian …

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        2.  🇺🇸617to416 🇨🇦‏ @617to416 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT and

          Trump has a certain type of "competence": he is very good at bluster and bullying to sell what he wants to sell and get what he wants to get. The question, though, is whether he can sell or get what he wants when he's got minimal leverage over the party he's dealing with.

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        3.  🇺🇸617to416 🇨🇦‏ @617to416 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @617to416 @HeerJeet and

          If he doesn't have leverage, however, the temptation to revert to using force must be very tempting . . . and that makes him dangerously likely to slip into authoritarianism now that he has the power of the government behind him.

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        1. Robert Waldmann‏ @robertwaldmann 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT and

          But at least Phillip the Fair was good looking.

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        1. U.S.O.U.S.‏ @hyperauxetic 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT and

          Dysfunction is a weapon the autocrat. See modern Russia. Multiple power centers. No functioning institutions to check/constrain. Patronage and sycophancy keys to success. Autocrats don’t want to “get things done”. They want a stable instability they control.

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        1. Napoleon (the pig)‏ @Mark_in_Ohio 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT and

          I read a bio of Stalin a few years ago and I came away stunned at how incompetent he was at everything but being a dictator.

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        1. Nied‏ @B_Nied 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT and

          There are more recent examples here as well, Maduro, Milosevich, Duterte, All pretty incompetent, all dragged nominal democracies to authoritarianism.

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        2. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet @DouthatNYT and

          In many ways, these differences play out pre-election positions on dangers of Trump victory. Frum & Chait took threat of Trumpism much more seriously, Robin treated it with disdain, continually asserting that Trump would never win & so one could vote however one wished.

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        3. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 25 Jan 2018
          Replying to @LeoECasey @HeerJeet and

          The argument that Trump is weak and in mainstream of American presidency (Robin compares his administration to Jimmy Carter's) functions as an ex post facto justification for pre-election dismissal of the dangers his election posed.

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