Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I can't even step out to buy groceries anymore without the leader of the free world leading my colleagues to worry for their lives https://t.co/RHus6y4lZu — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @chipmanj: German Finance Minister Schauble confirms looking at Minister von der Leyen that Germany will meet NATO defence spending goa… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

lbj and monroe should be higher; truman, ike and teddy should be lower imo. jackson way way lower. https://t.co/wjZThXZYE9 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

this is a joke about how the president considers ~25% of the electorate physically unattractive https://t.co/bU5e5vp9by — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

lots of realtalk from @sangerkatz here https://t.co/Kc4d3Kjeyc https://t.co/nwdH5ub7d0 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @caseysjournal: Having lived in countries where the "deep state" spars populist rulers, this was long my fear when Trump arrived. https:… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @AlexHortonTX: Really well done interactive look at Venezuela's unmooring through @hannahdreier's tweets https://t.co/qSfQaHhveX — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @stcolumbia: To summarize: this shouldn't reassure you. Political conspiracies, if believed, can trigger a security dilemma that causes… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Listening to @MicahZenko’s podcast is like putting my job on easymode. Almost feels like cheating it’s so helpful. https://t.co/tsHWf58cut — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @MicahZenko: Aaron wrote an A+ short overview of the battleground in Syria, and Trump's 3 bad strategic options: https://t.co/MxirOVFPWc — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @MicahZenko: My conversation w/ the brilliant @aaronstein1 on Trump's bad options in Syria. https://t.co/noFxUSogmD — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@aaronstein1 @CherylRofer yes, these are good points. get at why IMO risk of unintended conflict is now lower, tho could rise dramatically — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@aaronstein1 I hear you but it feels like such a crisis point was closer & more likely in 2014/2015. Risks of misreading intentions higher. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@aaronstein1 Seriously tho — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@aaronstein1 lol — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

You could make a case the risk has declined since post-Cold War peak in late 2014 and early 2015 What do folks th… https://t.co/Gvw4Ew897l — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @alexburnsNYT: If an analysis of political events sounds best in Kevin Spacey's truly terrible Southern accent, it is almost certainly w… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Sort of misunderstands security dilemmas to argue, as many liberals are today, that the risks don’t count if one side has moral high ground. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@stevelevine Exactly. Tho unlikely go that far, lesson holds: hard to de-politicize an institution, even if it doesn’t like politicized role — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

…just because I like them doesn’t mean I can dismiss emerging risks of institutional conflict w/in US govt. https://t.co/Gpi23woFqz — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I talk a lot to civil servants & rely on them for my reporting. They’re not a “deep state” & don’t want to be. Intentions are good. But... — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

That’s the thing about incentives. We can assign the most generous of motives to individuals and still worry about collective behavior. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It’s basically just a simple security dilemma. But instead of states, it’s US government institutions that are facing off. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

But let’s not confuse intention for outcomes. We can love and cherish our bureaucracy and still acknowledge it faces unappealing choices. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

A point @ProfSaunders has made: no one wants to be the deep state. They want things to work. Institutional conflict reactive, not proactive. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

You’re seeing start of this now; both “sides” digging in for the potential of sustained institutional conflict, tho that would serve neither — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

A topline point: If pres & bureaucracy perceive even the threat of institutional conflict, it makes that outcome plausible & maybe likely. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Really good @stcolumbia meta-thread on the meta-debate over whether there’s an American “deep state” https://t.co/AGoQXPKeut — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@DenisonBe Got a story coming on this next week. Some are willing to go way way further than even I would’ve thought. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I’ve said this before but senior German officials raised this over & over in intvus w me. See US as potential threa… https://t.co/58cH4TKGyn — PolitiTweet.org