One interesting political crisis we haven't experienced is what happens when you cross a destabilizing president like Trump with an equally destabilizing popular general in the tradition of McClellan or MacArthur, who nearly escaped civilian control under a competent presidency
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In that narrow respect it's fortunate that we have 'forever wars' instead of ones with a clear victory, which spares us the prospect of a beloved military leader stepping in to "save the republic" from a president who has repeatedly humiliated and debased the military leadership
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Moreover it's easy to imagine such a crisis in circumstances that most of us would applaud, like the military refusing to follow unconscionable orders, or begin a war that Congress didn't authorize. Anxieties like these are why I don't care who replaces Trump, as long as he loses
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