The increasingly overt intervention by senior military officials in electoral politics = grim sign for the Republic https://twitter.com/adamparkhomenko/status/771309753217671168 …
There are unwritten rules being flouted; see widespread military pushback to Gen. Allen and Gen. Flynn
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If there was an unwritten rule you wouldn't have Washington, Grant, Eisenhower as POTUS or Wesley Clark running.
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Here are military officials asserting violations of an unwritten rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nearly-the-entire-national-security-establishment-has-rejected-trumpexcept-for-this-man/2016/08/15/d5072d96-5e4b-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html?sds …
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What unwritten rule? Plenty of retired generals have run for political office(more serious than endorsement)
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I think some of those objections went to the venue and the stridency of their speeches, but yeah.
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In 2004 retired military officers endorsed both Bush and Kerry. http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/09winter/corbett%20and%20davidson.pdf …
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