Even on Joe Biden’s reported favorite news show, Morning Joe, even host Joe Scarborough sems to be getting fed up with the stale, standard talking points. This example is from five weeks or so ago. It features Richard Haass, who is one of my favorite measures of what counts as the bounds of respectable establishment positions on foreign policy. If Haass is saying it, even conservatives among conventional foreign policy analysts can’t so easily dismiss it as out of (respectable) bounds.
YIKES. But he’s like Trump in that he acts bananas and he is very calculating at the same time?
So I don’t think the syndromes are running the show even if he has them. He’s like a strategy computer. Machiavellian is his main mode. I cannot imagine he would suddenly lose that mode even if he is flailing about wildly in every direction.
YIKES. But he’s like Trump in that he acts bananas and he is very calculating at the same time?
So I don’t think the syndromes are running the show even if he has them. He’s like a strategy computer. Machiavellian is his main mode. I cannot imagine he would suddenly lose that mode even if he is flailing about wildly in every direction.