By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--February 4, 2017
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Across all branches of military service, Trump had a strong majority, Military.com reported. A total of 17,149 respondents completed the questionnaire, the website reported. A breakdown by service found Trump has the support of 74 percent of Marines and Marine Corps Reserve respondents; 68 percent of Army, Army Reserve and Army National Guard; 68 percent of Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard; and 62 percent of Navy and Navy Reserve respondents. He has 63 percent of just active-duty respondents; 55 percent of active duty officers are counted: He has 63 percent of that group. Given President Trump’s bold moves in his first few days in his office and his muscular approach to military and national security matters, my guess is that today his approval numbers among military personnel (who naturally tend to be politically conservative) would be even higher.Rage consumed-liberals could also wait Trump out and defeat his reelection bid "but after such a catastrophic first week, four years seems like a long time to wait.” Impeachment and removal from office is also an option, she argues. But “impeachments take time: months, if not longer — even with an enthusiastic Congress. And when you have a lunatic controlling the nuclear codes, even a few months seems like a perilously long time to wait.”
Pence isn’t exactly a political moderate — he’s been unremittingly hostile to gay rights, he’s a climate change skeptic, etc. — but, unappealing as his politics may be to many Americans, he does not appear to actually be insane. (This is the new threshold for plausibility in American politics: “not actually insane.”)Brooks is — surprise, surprise — a professor at and an associate dean of Georgetown University Law Center. She was a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of State, a consultant for Human Rights Watch, a fellow at the Carr Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a board member of Amnesty International USA, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a lecturer at Yale Law School, a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Fragile States, the board of the National Security Network and the Steering Committee of the White Oak Foreign Policy Leaders Project. In 2006-2007 she was Special Counsel to the President at George Soros’s Open Society Institute in New York. Of course she was.
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