Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @mattfleg: Underrated quote from Christie audition: "I’d like to come look at your optics everyday, buddy." https://t.co/k4JdSYJPkH — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@MazMHussain where do you find this stuff — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias The friends who abet war crimes together stay together — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias Ha, yes. I think both sides hoped that the other would drop support for its allies in the Asian perip… https://t.co/cXyLD7jAgY — PolitiTweet.org

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American FP analysts, myself included, tend to scoff at China’s foreign policy chops. But the Taiwan Relations Act was a world-changing win. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sino-Soviet relations were bad in the 1970s but they were also bad in the 1960s, when Sino-US ties hit their nadir. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the American telling, this was all about bandwagoning against the Soviets, but that doesn’t really comport with the timeline. — PolitiTweet.org

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The fact that we formally abandoned a military ally to align with a major adversary (!!!) is, uh, pretty unusual. Huge success for Beijing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard to think of any post-WW2 effort to alter US foreign policy that was as successful as China’s. They got us to abandon a military ally! — PolitiTweet.org

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Sort of amazing that we consider US-China normalization primarily a US accomplishment rather than a Chinese success at shaping US policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@profmusgrave i know, i’m keeping the results open in a separate tab just to torture myself — PolitiTweet.org

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@profmusgrave love and respect to berlin but it doesn’t belong on this list. it’s not even the best german city. — PolitiTweet.org

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@evanchill but campus protesters are the real threat — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BananaKarenina: Refresh your summer nightmare rotation w "bubonic ice"! https://t.co/1N1o5uF2dM https://t.co/IauXLvCcuk — PolitiTweet.org

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"Mutually assured destruction" is a myth and deliberate nuclear war remains plausible. Have a great Monday. https://t.co/KD9V3eAsPx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PippaN15: Republican views of colleges turn sharply negative. Why? Leadership cues ('who needs experts')? Or differences in who is now… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Yascha_Mounk: And this may have driven some of the disenchantment with democracy we’ve seen in the last years, as this striking graph s… — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmmaMAshford Structural factors every which way! — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmmaMAshford Fwiw this seems to me like a case where political strategy dictated economic policy, not the other way around — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmmaMAshford Could argue Chavez maintained such high public spending bc desperate for legitimation after undermini… https://t.co/AJT6E8ZqbP — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@EmmaMAshford Fwiw I would put more emphasis on the politically-motivated gutting of major economic & political ins… https://t.co/IFNsNPSHD1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway my point in this sorta random series is that Americans, solipsism world champions, make every issue about us and our politics. Fin. — PolitiTweet.org

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So, on the right and the left, Americans were too busy arguing about themselves to notice Venezuela’s downturn and its actual causes. — PolitiTweet.org

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The fact that Bush was hostile to Chavez helped entrenched “Chavez vs Bush” as a silly but widespread way to debate US domestic politics. — PolitiTweet.org

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My best guess is the left held up Chavez as a model in early 2000s, when he seemed more promising & could be presented as foil to GW Bush. — PolitiTweet.org

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Very little of Chavez’s early reforms or subsequent slide to authoritarianism seem attributable to socialism to me https://t.co/snJoLqrAEY — PolitiTweet.org

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Always seemed strange to me that both opponents and proponents of socialism treat Chavez as the ultimate test case https://t.co/uRIWiCl2ZR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @blakehounshell: Jan. 15 https://t.co/xXSRnQKFTA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: Who among us hasn't met a Russian lobbyist offering dirt on our enemies as a pretext to talk sanctions, forgotten it, the… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @dtchimp: If nothing else, incumbent party's loss signals that Mongolia remains a democracy. https://t.co/rHRvjnQl6i — PolitiTweet.org