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John Bolton will be hired by a future GOP administration. Not because of innate nefariousness or because Bolton is likable. Neither Bush nor Trump liked Bolton. It’s that Bolton is competent at ramming things through a bureaucracy and that sometimes is something a POTUS requires
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Such figures are necessary evils and most Presidents find one - Harry Hopkins, Sherman Adams, Blowtorch Bob Komer, Al Haig, HR Haldeman, Ben Rhodes and many others. Some are deft and some are bulls in a China shop but they are used to bludgeon bureaucratic opposition to policy
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