Republicans purge every thinker who was correct. Republic...

Republicans purge every thinker who was correct. Republican economists who were right about 2007-2012 are now, as best as I can see, all ex-Republican economists. And the same dynamic has long been working in the national security space: Gene Healy (2015): Think Tanks and the Iraq War: "It would be even better if the GOP���s 2016 contenders weren���t still, 12 years later, so eager to seek foreign policy advice from people who got the Iraq War Question spectacularly wrong...

...You might suspect that there���s just no accountability for GOP foreign policy advisers; but that isn���t so. The Wall Street Journal��recently reported that ���Elbridge Colby, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, was being seriously considered for a job as foreign policy director in Mr. Bush���s expanding organization, [but] according to a person familiar with the campaign���s internal deliberations, Mr. Bush���s political operation raised concerns about Mr. Colby���s published views on Iran.��Mr. Colby has prominently��advocated against a military strike on Iran��and has called for the Republican Party to move closer to its roots of pragmatism and containment.��� So he���s out. You can���t expect to retain your political and professional credibility after a screw-up like that...

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