Max Fisher

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Emerging spin: Bannon never went to NSC meetings so no need to keep him on. One problem: pre-McMaster, NSC had no meetings to attend or skip — PolitiTweet.org

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Still: doesn’t come close to resolving greater issues with admin policymaking. Top jobs still unfilled, internal comms still a mess, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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Even if change is mostly symbolic, downgrading him and upgrading McMaster signals NSC staffers can breathe a little easier, do their jobs. — PolitiTweet.org

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This will strengthen NSC. Bannon was leading internal witch-hunts to purge supposedly disloyal elements. Chilled NSC’s ability to do its job — PolitiTweet.org

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Big Q for me: McMaster would need an ally in Trump’s inner circle to make this happen. But who? Whoever it was, they want to undercut Bannon — PolitiTweet.org

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Also not clear: whether McMaster won an internal battle to put grownups in charge of the NSC or just Trump punishing Bannon for Nunes fiasco — PolitiTweet.org

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If it’s the latter, that would be a more “normal” role akin to political advisors who came to Obama and Bush NSC meetings — PolitiTweet.org

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Not clear if he is being barred from attending or merely downgraded to a position that will still allow to go as a political advisor — PolitiTweet.org

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A few thoughts on Bannon getting pulled from the NSC, per bloomberg https://t.co/UpqXR7iUV7 — PolitiTweet.org

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after all the elaborate theories of trumpism i think this is by far the best explanation of his foreign policy https://t.co/CILUm3W1Tz — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias outgrouping --> negative partisanship --> continue winning elections with zero precent approval ratings — PolitiTweet.org

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attack ad: filmmaker and congressional candidate jon ossoff has done work with a tv network run by MUSLIMS https://t.co/IccsN5FNJg — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Mc1998Alex: El ejemplo de Venezuela: cómo el populismo deriva en autoritarismo vía @nytimesES Por @Max_Fisher y @amandataub https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Implicit bias is deadly. People are less apt to see human depth in those of a different race.… https://t.co/BeaqInnmRA — PolitiTweet.org

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@charlie_simpson reasons! and agreed, i’d rather use HW as an example but kissinger cases are more familiar imo. bu… https://t.co/CXb0OdO8fD — PolitiTweet.org

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@charlie_simpson kissinger may be a war criminal but sorkin is still worse — PolitiTweet.org

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@charlie_simpson please don’t impose aaron sorkin references on my feed — PolitiTweet.org

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Our piece on the (declining) risk of major US-Russia war doubles as a primer on how unwanted, unintended wars start: https://t.co/lvVaBz8TVI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kampeas: @Max_Fisher @amandataub Not just France. https://t.co/YlwMGFdnxl — PolitiTweet.org

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@RyanDEnos @amandataub One certainly might! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RyanDEnos: @Max_Fisher @amandataub One might say a similar shift has happened with the right in the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@amandataub Remember this next time you hear a far-right populist talk about “protecting women” from Muslims. A wa… https://t.co/FgKcfxn0gV — PolitiTweet.org

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.@amandataub This is why Le Pen is courting Jews: it gives French voters permission to support her hard-line anti-M… https://t.co/jykWqcxEj4 — PolitiTweet.org

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.@amandataub Fascinating finding: Voters are more willing to support racist policies if they give themselves permis… https://t.co/TwBVduM7p9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KingstonAReif: 1/Whatever one thinks about infamous Obama red line, the narrative that the administration did nothing in response to Sy… — PolitiTweet.org

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Crazy @amandataub story from France: The far-right, long known for anti-semitism, is now courting Jews. https://t.co/rsWCTI2Nq6 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dickstevenson: Great @amandataub piece on another way in which Le Pen is trying to normalize the National Front. https://t.co/fdxv2lOn7U — PolitiTweet.org

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Assad’s most immediate concern is local conditions, then Moscow/Tehran balancing act, then Turkey, then the West. Not everything is about us — PolitiTweet.org

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Have the (remote but real) risks of major US-Russia conflict gone up or down under Trump? Here’s our view: https://t.co/lvVaBz8TVI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @A_M_Dolan: @Max_Fisher Thanks for this excellent thread. I've been wanting to shout "Trump is not a realist" from the rooftops the past… — PolitiTweet.org