Lee Smith
A lively and sometimes fractious debate over Donald Trump administration foreign policy is now in full swing in D.C. It started on X when pro-Trump activist Charlie Kirk posted that Sen. Tom Cotton was keeping Trump nominee Elbridge (“Bridge”) Colby from getting confirmed at the Defense Department—and it culminated with the vice president of the United States stomping on Tablet colleague Park MacDougald.
It was X, formerly Twitter, in its Platonic form, what the app was meant to be but rarely has been, a public forum inviting the famous and unknown to trade their thoughts and feelings in hope that all may profit from the exchange—sort of like when Hollywood star James Woods answers questions about the big-name actors he’s worked with, and he responds with grace and tact to give the public an inside view.
In this case, though, big-name political figures were the stars—and the gloves were off. Kirk wrote Cotton was impeding Colby because he’s “one of the most important pieces to stop the Bush/Cheney cabal at DOD,” and invited X users to venture their own theories. The editor of Tablet’s Scroll newsletter posted in response that it had nothing to do with a neocon cabal at DOD. The reason Republican senators had a problem with Colby is because he is in effect a Democrat.
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