THREAD:

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@NormOrnstein, a writer I deeply respect, tweeted this alarming thread:

https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1204481956169302019

It encompasses many fears I’ve been expressing for a year.

I’m going to lay out what I see, past & future, hoping foresight might help avert the grimmest destiny. @NormOrnstein 2/10

My career has been in project management: theorist, author, consultant, teacher. PM requires sequencing events, predecessors & successors, building to a future result. I believe these techniques shd be used not just for projects, but also to analyze history, past & future.

THREAD: OF THE MUELLER REPORT & IMPEACHMENT
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In superb Atlantic article abt Mueller Rept, @benjaminwittes says: “Mueller looks at these through a legal lens; he’s a prosecutor... I found myself reading it through a very different lens: patriotism.”

amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/58… 2/

I believe in patriotism, as well as rule of law. But my friend Craig likes to say we shd always ask: "Why is THIS a law and THAT isn't?" Or to paraphrase Anatole France, why does the law's infinite egalitarianism ban rich & poor alike from sleeping under bridges but NOT...

THREAD: Analysis of Helsinki meeting

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Some know of my background in MI. I have contacts who continued in IC careers. We’ve had some convos. This is distillation of our info/analysis:

1st, Putin is probably amazed at what Mueller knows, & mad at GRU abt how FBI could get it. 2/5

Putin will have started meeting by emphasizing that he has been Russian leader for 20 yrs, head of KGB for decade, intel officer since teenager. “I’m a HOF’er, you’re a rookie!”

Trump looked AWFUL after meeting, beat up! Putin put him in his place.

THREAD:
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OPEN TWEET TO @SteveSchmidtSES , @WilliamKristol , @JoeNBC , @NormOrnstein , @SenJohnMcCain , @JeffFlake , @JohnKasich , @MichaelSteele , @nytdavidbrooks & other Republicans horrified by “new GOP” & who may now leave:

First: Welcome to the fight for America’s soul! 2/14

It’s always hard to determine when a historical event was triggered. Was seed of Civil War planted w Lincoln’s election in 1860? Buchanan’s 4 years neglecting the growing rift? Compromise of 1850, giving free states Senate majority but nationalizing fugitive slave law?