Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

the notion that trump is driven by ruthless promotion of interests and hard-nosed realism withstands very little scrutiny — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

the strongest explanation for trump's shrug at human rights abroad is that he doesn't care and is disengaged from foreign policy — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

realists don't believe in bellicosity for the sake of it. trump does. realists believe in mutually beneficial alliances. trump doesnt. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

trump is a nationalist, not a realist. that's not conjecture -- he is quite open about this himself. those are two different things. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

for that matter, the american realist tradition heavily emphasizes global integration and alliance-building. it's kissinger's whole thing. — PolitiTweet.org

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"realism" is an affirmative worldview, not just an absence of caring about human rights or international engagement — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

i read these emerging theories that trump is some hard-nosed kissingerian realist and i'm sorry but i just don't see it — PolitiTweet.org

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@fmanjoo one wonders: was the clock on the table? did they take it off, to make room for all the options? — PolitiTweet.org

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fyi to editors — my appetite for articles on the badness of the pepsi ad is basically bottomless — PolitiTweet.org

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@blakehounshell yes in retrospect a number of differences are clear that may have been murkier at the time — PolitiTweet.org

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This is very important point. FP decisions are later deemed brilliant or disastrous based on outcomes that were unk… https://t.co/ZKcCUFhJPQ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

feels like a nuke test is around the corner https://t.co/1D66XDEhlC — PolitiTweet.org

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oh man a clock AND a table. if they break out the sticks and the carrots we will be in a state of formal metaphor w… https://t.co/OtqONfm5aR — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Just when you thought Dems were down and out, they find a winning message: the Iraq War, except this time here at h… https://t.co/IPsrna8qNy — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BenjySarlin: The spiders can't devour us fast enough https://t.co/VvLWksA33U — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Aelkus: However, the idea that war is a secular crusade and involves the smiting of the wicked pervades how Americans discuss it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Surely this set of unprovable counterfactuals and red-faced twitter debates will settle the issue once and for all — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Ah good, round #382 of the Great Debate over whether Obama not launching punitive strikes in 2013 retroactively cau… https://t.co/WUq72CYRqJ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@bungdan I don't think that trend has remotely abated — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@nateisgood i think he’s referring to the ultra-elaborate twitter theories that go much further than mere interference — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Not that middle positions are inherently superior, but striking there’s no real middleground on the question of Chinese economic stability. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Completely yo-yoed by the never-ending debate over whether China’s economy is a ticking time bomb or basically fine https://t.co/4Hosjfzrsh — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Trump Conspiracy Tweetstorms Are The Infowars Of The Left https://t.co/Wke8nVrfeA — PolitiTweet.org

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I would be very interested to see polling on how concern for coal mining jobs intersects with race, class, cultural resentments, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Increasingly suspect that "coal mining jobs" not actually about coal miners but rather signaling a certain kind of identity politics. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

US coal mining jobs: 77,000 US tourism jobs: 5,302,000 https://t.co/nYsw3erLvt — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Rex Tillerson seems to have burned through his grace period with the foreign policy community — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrendanNyhan: The idea of giving "exclusive rights" to video of an official act of government of that magnitude... boggles the mind htt… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

the chelsea clinton outrage cycle: 1. speculate she will run 2. force her to deny it 3. attack her for daring to entertain it 4. pageviews — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias i like how it’s framed with a casual nod to the need for racial eugenics — PolitiTweet.org