There Was a White House Playbook for Selling Unpopular Foreign Policy Ideas. Trump Has Thrown It Away.

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Originally published at: There Was a White House Playbook for Selling Unpopular Foreign Policy Ideas. Trump Has Thrown It Away. - TPM – Talking Points Memo

This book excerpt is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. After successfully completing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal), the Obama White House faced a minor scandal. Ben Rhodes, one of the president’s chief deputies for national security affairs, gave a quote for…

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Informative and interesting.

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Trump may succeed in dismantling the national security public relations machinery that I call the echo system, but he is more likely to build his own, only louder.

Trump can certainly deliver on the former, but he’s never proven competent on the latter. The most likely outcome is he co-opts the national security public relations machinery for his own corrupt ends and it crashes and burns with him.

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