“FR has become such a pit of ignorant nattering nabobs...”
Agreed. What is increasingly rare on this site is any application of reason. I have a hard time believing some of these folks aren’t liberal plants.
I don’t recall years ago on FR people acting like they can somehow sound smart by simply name-calling without any data or arguments. And purifying the party down to just Trump and whichever commenter can blacklist everybody else first.
There is only one swamp-like bit of information I see in this story so far. It is that Trump chose Sessions instead of who he thought was best (Barr) simply out of loyalty.
I still like Trump, but that is a swamp move. The foundation of the swamp is built on loyalty trumping reason.
Personally, I still would have initially thought Sessions would be better than Barr mostly because he had AG experience that was not DC-based and a good right wing record generally. It did not work out well, but there were better reasons to pick him than loyalty.
Agree with you. I sometimes think some of Trump’s biggest enemies are those here who refer to themselves as his “base.” Some base.
Think about it, the CIA told him to go Deep State and sent him to GWU night school (the same school that Chuck Todd could not managed to graduate from).
"After cutting short his intelligence career, Barr clerked for a federal judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals, worked in private practice, and did a stint as a domestic policy adviser under President Ronald Reagan. He then returned to private practice before joining the Bush campaign in 1988, where he helped select then-Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be the vice president's running mate.""Barr has emerged as a sometimes defender of the president in the press. In 2017, he told The New York Times that the Justice Department may have more cause to look at a controversial uranium deal involving Hillary Clinton than any alleged collusion between Mr. Trump and Russia." [ed.note: Oh, hello tagline]
A 2nd term domestic policy analyst under Reagan? Now we know who prompted discussion of consolidating/eliminating Dept. of Education! And of course, even Reagan fell prey to the argument that eliminating Cabinets eliminates Executive power.