It is certainly the case that Kim Jong Un is evil or at the very least heinously amoral. This does not mean it’s not good for the world and his people to negotiate with him. Even monsters can respond to incentives.
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Replying to @drethelin
True. Do you expect this *particular* negotiation to be a net-positive, though?
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Replying to @shlevy
It’ll probably wind up with the world looking about the same, but a lot of people are saying trump is evil for ‘legitimating’ KJU. The attempt is worthwhile.
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Replying to @drethelin
Oddly enough, one of the biggest upsides to the Trump presidency so far for me is that he's helped *delegitimize* the presidency.
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Replying to @shlevy @drethelin
I used to think that but now I'm less-sure If the internal response to Trump were power re-grabs by competing institutions (states, Congress especially) and reimplementation of formal checks I think it would be fantastic, but I don't see them doing this right now :/
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Put another way seems like Presidential auctoritas is busted but that's probably temporary, and other players aren't seeing their auctoritas rise, and no one is reclaiming potestas
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Instead every newspaper every goddamn day is just Trump Trump Trump More auctoritas than ever, just negative (?)
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