"The damage Trump has done to US power, to the US image, to the int'l order in just 2 years is stunning. If Trump is backed into a corner & gets even more erratic & extremist, which seems quite possible, who knows what will happen on the int'l stage. It’s not clear who or what could constrain him."

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Whether it is the East Wing of the White House, the Reflecting Pool on the Mall, the East Potomac golf course, or the Kennedy Center, the wildly incompetent Donald Trump can't turn his attention to *anything* without leaving behind debris and destruction.

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I think it helped that he showed his work. Just calling that guy racist or islamophobic or whatever would've been accurate but he explained what that means in this context and why it's bad. Even for things that seem self evident it's good to do that in political communication

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blue state governors should have a backup plan just in case Todd Blanche or Trump's armed thug's cosplaying law enforcement try to intimidate voters. I'm worried that they'll be a shooting by Trump's paramilitary & he'll use it declare national emergency &try to cancel the midterm elections._

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For example? "Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." Melville

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