What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[mongers]

Bolton is King of the neocons.  It's an odd choice given Trump's own stated positions.

Clutching at straws?

Or maybe grasping the nettle?

[CountDeMoney]

Love Rudy but he just seems to goofy for the role.  I'd go with the dude with the pushbroom stache.

I am really surprised that Rudy couldn't get US AG if he really wanted it. SoS is in the ultimate inner circle, but still--it's his thing, and it's not like he wouldn't be in the loop anyway.

[Razgovory]

Bolton is King of the neocons.  It's an odd choice given Trump's own stated positions.

Clutching at straws?

Or maybe grasping the nettle?

It's entirely possible that Trump has no idea who Bolton is.

[Admiral Yi]

SoS has mega visibility, status, and prestige, but not that much actual power and ability to drive policy.

[Barrister]

SoS has mega visibility, status, and prestige, but not that much actual power and ability to drive policy.

Look at Guiliani.  Do you think he's after "power and driving policy", or "visibility, status and prestige"?

[mongers]

SoS has mega visibility, status, and prestige, but not that much actual power and ability to drive policy.

Kissinger is the outlier to your argument and John Foster Dulles a good example of power wielded in partnership with the President.

[Hamilcar]

I hope nobody tells Trump to google "unitary executive theory".

[celedhring]

It's entirely possible that Trump has no idea who Bolton is.

Pretty sure he thinks he hired him to sing in Las Vegas.

[Admiral Yi]

Kissinger is the outlier to your argument and John Foster Dulles a good example of power wielded in partnership with the President.

Definitely agree about Kissinger, don't know enough about Dulles to comment.

But Kissinger was powerful because of his ability to imagine revolutionary geopolitical strategies, and had a president that was willing to defer and delegate to him.  I don't see that ever being repeated.

[CountDeMoney]

Definitely agree about Kissinger, don't know enough about Dulles to comment.

Curious, what was your major at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government: Classical Guitar or Rock Guitar?

[Admiral Yi]

Curious, what was your major at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government: Classical Guitar or Rock Guitar?

KSG is an MBA type program with a smattering of theory and heavy on the case study and workshop stuff.  It's not a Masters in the history of US government.

So rock guitar I guess.

[CountDeMoney]

Btw, Go hit today's Atlantic on how this election was a nail in the coffin of Political Science and its bullshit reliNce on predictive modeling and statistical analysis.

Been saying that for years.  And not just because I hate math, either.

[derspiess]

Btw, Go hit today's Atlantic on how this election was a nail in the coffin of Political Science and its bullshit reliNce on predictive modeling and statistical analysis.

Been saying that for years.  And not just because I hate math, either.

I remember how my old PoliSci prof used to tell us how Political Science would be just as sciencey as the real sciences in a few years based upon that statistics & prediction stuff, and how case studies went out with powdered wigs.  I remembered that for the test, but never really bought it.  Same for about half the stuff I studied in my PoliSci classes.

[Hamilcar]

Things that aren't science shouldn't add "science" to the name for marketing purposes. Also looking at you, social "sciences".

[garbon]

Things that aren't science shouldn't add "science" to the name for marketing purposes. Also looking at you, social "sciences".

So you can't scientifically explore human behavior?