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The fallacy @baseballcrank is relying on is that if good people serve a bad administration, they do good under the radar. I think years of this dumpster fire tells us not only that this is untrue, but that these good people end up covered in slime despite their best efforts. /1
@baseballcrank If the good people who tried to execute the President's *own policy on Ukraine* and were destroyed by it are not evidence enough, nothing is. But hey, Bill Barr is highly competent. Aren't we all relieved that he's in there?

I'm not.

/2
"Better to get marginally better policy than to abandon Trump" would be a good case to make three years ago. What we know now is that Trump systematically targets experts and excludes them or fires them when he can. And then he blames them. Bad policy is still the result. /3
Also, note that Dan is implicitly accepting that without the Never Trumpers, Trump can't find a pool of people who are both qualified *and* loyal to Trump. That's a huge admission in itself.
Look, if we must fail, let us fail without using experts as scapegoats. /4x
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