Four years into a process where *every national security threat* has become a weapon in political war, this kind of sentiment is exasperating. We don't live in an Eagle Scout society, we are not going to unite over this, and we need to side with the only party that will fix ithttps://twitter.com/john_sipher/status/1237025033228374016 …
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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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