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Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism

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Re: Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism

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The Atlantic has an article out about him today, including interviews where he's extremely reluctant to criticize the sitting Commander in Chief. Him entering the primaries wouldn't fit with that.

> "The duty of silence. If you leave an administration, you owe some silence. When you leave an administration over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country. They still have the responsibility of protecting this great big experiment of ours. I know the malevolence some people feel for this country, and we have to give the people who are protecting us some time to carry out their duties without me adding my criticism to the cacophony that is right now so poisonous."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/james-m...

Re: Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism

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it seems unlikely that anybody will run against trump on the republican primary but we'll see

Two people already are: Bill Weld and Joe Walsh. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-hard-to-know-what-k...

And the Republican National Committee has stated that they won't support anyone but Donald Trump.
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