The constant, reflexive call to rise above partisanship, from people in the intelligence blob who should know better, flies in the face of every experience we've had with this administration. If Russian interference comes, it won't be because we committed the crime of partiality
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I think the root of it (since these are smart people) is deep nostalgia about a period in American foreign policy where both parties agreed in broad outline, and the practitioners of empire could fancy themselves impartial patriots. This toxic nostalgia is Trump's greatest asset
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The worst practitioners of toxic nostalgia are national security types and the press. They are like referees who used to adjudicate olympic wrestling and find themselves in the WWF. They will blow the whistle, over and over, until someone comes and hits them with a folding chair
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This is just performative cynicism; I think you're the one not being serious here
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Problem is that strategy for the IC is just as bad, because if they sided with a political faction there really would be a deep state Their only recourse is impariality & speaking truth to power
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You're expecting a *political party* to fix this?
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