Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I’ll wager that von Bolton’s refusal to bless the failing North Korea bromance and counsel against Putin ass-kissing were far worse marks against him in the mind of the infallible Der Trumper than any of Bolton’s incessant warmongering, which Trumper himself readily engages in, rhetorically if not in practice (“I could end [Conflict X] tomorrow”, etc). For the incompetent, juvenile Trumper to have his idiot ideas formally challenged was simply intolerable. Hence the “John and I disagreed on many things” tweetsplanation. The preening sycophant Pompous-eo, the Grand Vizier of the hollowed out shell of State, on the other hand, understands… Read more »
I’ll wager that von Bolton’s refusal to bless the failing North Korea bromance and counsel against Putin ass-kissing were far worse marks against him in the mind of the infallible Der Trumper than any of Bolton’s incessant warmongering, which Trumper himself readily engages in, rhetorically if not in practice (“I could end [Conflict X] tomorrow”, etc). For the incompetent, juvenile Trumper to have his idiot ideas formally challenged was simply intolerable. Hence the “John and I disagreed on many things” tweetsplanation. The preening sycophant Pompous-eo, the Grand Vizier of the hollowed out shell of State, on the other hand, understands… Read more »