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1/ The reader’s-guide/ action-plan summary of my current piece in @TheAtlantic. It addresses ever-more-acute issue of how Biden should deal with what Trump has wrought.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/how-biden-should-investigate-trump/617260/
First, need for triage. New admin faces emergencies on all fronts. (See screenshot)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/how-biden-should-investigate-trump/617260/
First, need for triage. New admin faces emergencies on all fronts. (See screenshot)
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Next, on across-the-board issues of corruption:
This is mainly a job for the states. And for federal issues, task it to appoint eminent AttyGen/ Inspectors general, and get out of their way. This should be Trump's problem, not Biden's.
Next, on across-the-board issues of corruption:
This is mainly a job for the states. And for federal issues, task it to appoint eminent AttyGen/ Inspectors general, and get out of their way. This should be Trump's problem, not Biden's.
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Next, on corrosion-of-governance issues (which are enormously important), need full-speed effort to re-populate working ranks, including inventive new ways to bring in mid-career or senior people and attract a new cadre of young people.
Start w State Dept and sci agencies
Next, on corrosion-of-governance issues (which are enormously important), need full-speed effort to re-populate working ranks, including inventive new ways to bring in mid-career or senior people and attract a new cadre of young people.
Start w State Dept and sci agencies
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Then, three major-scale commissions, to deal with three catastrophic failures — and you’ll have to read the piece to see which ones I have in mind.
Then, three major-scale commissions, to deal with three catastrophic failures — and you’ll have to read the piece to see which ones I have in mind.
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Then, using what turns out to be one of a president’s major powers—shaping the “public story,” as shown in very diff ways by FDR, JFK, Reagan, Obama, and “American carnage” Trump.
Then, using what turns out to be one of a president’s major powers—shaping the “public story,” as shown in very diff ways by FDR, JFK, Reagan, Obama, and “American carnage” Trump.
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Piece lays out why Biden *should* invest his time / attention / leverage toward these specific ends, but why he should be careful *not* to be drawn down other paths.
Check it out: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/how-biden-should-investigate-trump/617260/
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Piece lays out why Biden *should* invest his time / attention / leverage toward these specific ends, but why he should be careful *not* to be drawn down other paths.
Check it out: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/how-biden-should-investigate-trump/617260/
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