{"id":55690,"date":"2020-11-19T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55690"},"modified":"2020-11-19T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:54:33","slug":"the-new-ruling-coalition-opposition-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-shows-its-key-factions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55690","title":{"rendered":"The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions<\/a><\/h3>\n

An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump era has engendered<\/strong>\u00a0numerous fractures, one might say realignments, in the political order. Long-time ideological allies are now adversaries, and long-time political enemies are now in full-fledged coalitions. These shifts are not temporary or Trump-dependent but enduring, because they are grounded in shared core beliefs about the defining debates shaping our new politics and how to consolidate real power: call it the Lincoln Project Syndrome.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON, DC – Former Obama CIA Director John Brennan (R) with\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg during the Washington Ideas Forum at the Harman Center for the Arts (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

One major reason for this transformation is a fundamental difference in how to understand Trump: is he the primary author of America\u2019s pathologies or merely a symptom of pathologies which long pre-dated him? Relatedly: is removing Trump from power a vital step in returning the U.S. to its previous status as a benevolent and law-abiding republic, or is isolating him as the principal cause of the nation\u2019s woes a cynical propaganda tactic for whitewashing the sins of those who are actually responsible so that they can rebuild their reputations and again assume power? Were Trump\u2019s policies some radical, unprecedented aberration from U.S. political tradition or, stylistic quirks aside, a standard continuation of it?<\/p>\n

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The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon. The Trump era has engendered\u00a0numerous fractures, one might say realignments, in the political order. Long-time ideological […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[5080,5437,9251,561,827,862],"class_list":["post-55690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-democratic-party","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-national-security-state","tag-neocons","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55691,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55690\/revisions\/55691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}