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Jeet Heer
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1. It's largely forgotten but Trump had an effort to reach out to South Asian voters in 2016 with a video where he said, "we love the Hindus." independent.ie/videos/world-n…
2. I bring up the 2016 video because looks like Trump will continue this outreach by appearing with Narendra Modi on Sunday at an event in Texas called ... "Howdy, Modi!"
3. Some thoughts here on Trump's courtship of the South Asian vote & his friendliness towards Modi: thenation.com/article/trump-…
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1. Here's the paradox: the more crimes Trump commits, the more disunited his opposition becomes. If Trump did shoot someone on 7th Avenue, not only would he get away with it, but the Dems would be tearing each other apart.
2. The answer to the paradox is simple: there is no clear Dem leader. So the worse Trump becomes, the more Dems argue over how to deal with him. This is all the moreso because Nancy Pelosi has decided to forgo leadership on impeachment.
3. The core Pelosi decision -- which I hope she changes -- is that impeachment doesn't make sense if there is no GOP buy-in. The reasoning here is that if only Dems push for impeachment it'll be seen as partisan. But this gives GOP veto power over issue.
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Jeet Heer
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1. It's worth taking this tweet from 2014 both seriously and literally as a statement of policy: Trump thinks foreign policy should be a protection racket, with client states (a.k.a. allies) shaken down for $$ in exchange for USA maintaining the peace as the big boss.
2. Foreign policy as protection racket is, incidentally, not an inherently absurd idea. The international relationship eggheads prefer more genteel language ("hegemony") but what is the point of imperial dominance if not plunder?
3. Trump's statement about why Saudi Arabia is a great ally ("Saudi Arabia pays cash") is at least candid, moreso than the Council of Foreign Relations blather about the liberal international order and security of trade.
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1. Impeach Kavanaugh? On the merits, sure. But as we know from Trump, just impeachment is both a political and legal process. And it's hard to imagine any process ending with 67 Senators voting to remove.
2. The impossibility of impeachment doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. There is value in getting the evidence against him on the public record, and also underscoring how the FBI wasn't given time to investigate & the nomination was stampeded through.
3. So, moving forward: investigation & impeachment. But maybe also other ways to dilute Kavanaugh's power. Some thoughts here: thenation.com/article/kavana…
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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
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