Tag: trump administration

Transitional Rot

By Dan Nexon

In Biden Administration

On January 20, 2021

Let’s start with a spot of good news: the Biden administration has already fired Michael Pack. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the partisan hack who wanted to tern the Voice of America, RFE/RL, and other government overseas news services into right-wing propaganda outlets. I’ve occasionally blogged about Pack’s corrupt, dangerous efforts to […]

Rule of Law , Trump

More Subversion of the U.S. Agency for Global Media

By Dan Nexon

On August 14, 2020

The corruption of US government international broadcasting continues apace. Daniel Lippman of Politico writes that: The U.S. Agency for Global Media has hired Frank Wuco, a controversial former talk r

2020 Election , democracy

At Least We Can No Longer Pretend That There Is No Crisis

By Dan Nexon

On July 18, 2020

Zolan Kanno-Youngs has an important piece in the Washington Post about the legal authority for the Trump administration’s deployment of little green men* in Portland. After President Trump signe

The Apotheosis of Nixonism

By Dan Nexon

In democracy

On February 23, 2020

We really are living through Nixon redux. Except with an idiot playing the part of Nixon and a totally plaint congress. The Trump White House and its allies, over the past 18 months, assembled detailed lists of disloyal government officials to oust — and trusted pro-Trump people to replace them — according to more than […]

foreign policy

The Neo-Patrimonial National Security State, Part II

By Dan Nexon

On February 22, 2020

Oh, this is just great. When President Trump’s national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien, convenes meetings with top National Security Council officials at the White House, he sometimes opens b

Trump

Canine Bites Man, Trump Brags about Classified Material

By Dan Nexon

On October 28, 2019

I don’t really have any penetrating insight on this matter. He’s done it before. He’ll do it again. Because he’s not just unqualified for his job, he’s anti-qualified. Wh

Sweating the “Small Stuff” of Progressive Internationalism

By Dan Nexon

In Hegemonic Unravelling

On September 24, 2019

Discussions of liberal orientations in U.S. foreign policy often quickly escalate into debates about the use of force, hypocrisy, and the status of “The Liberal International Order.” These are weighty and important issues. To the extent that liberal ordering drives—rather than simply serves as a rationalization for—American military interventions, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands […]

foreign policy , Trade Policy

Progressives and Trade

By Dan Nexon

On June 1, 2018

While many issues divide the progressive coalition—which I understand as an umbrella term for the center-left, left-liberals, democratic socialists, and various social-justice movements—internatio

General

Will the Trump Administration Fail?

By Erik Loomis

On July 2, 2017

Here’s yet another article arguing that the Trump presidency is finally about to fail. No, this time will be it. Trump is clearly on the way down. Forget about all the other times people claimed

Beachhead Teams

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 8, 2017

ProPublica is collecting information on some of the lovely people President Bannon has hired to staff government agencies. It’s lovely. A Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed “ethnic cleansing” in a plot to “liquidate” the white working class. A former reality show contestant whose study of societal collapse inspired him to invent a […]

General

Republican States Rights Doctrine

By Erik Loomis

On February 23, 2017

Spicer really laid out Republican states rights doctrine today in about 3 seconds. First, he was asked about transgender people and bathrooms. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday tha

General

The Postmodern Presidency

By Erik Loomis

On January 22, 2017

I remember 10 to 15 years ago, when one conservative talking point was that postmodernism was destroying western civilization. And then they realized they could just create their own truths. I have lo

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Lurking Canadian That’s breakneck speed. I would expect he needs at least that long just to appoint a special counsel to look into the matter.
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We can only hope that becomes true. The Korean DMZ has turned into an
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