Recommends The Education of an Idealist.

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…ole is incredibly important. If we could somehow return to a time where Republicans didn’t snipe at what Democrats did . . . I hope we’re still in a world where Democrats, if Trump did something . . . I think you saw this with the Syria chemical weapons response, that some Democrats came out in favor of that because it’s something they had favored Obama doing, and they were consistent. But probably the fact that it was Trump doing it overrode their cost-benefit of the action itself. It proved not to be a terribly effective action over time anyway. But when our lives are at stake, the lives of our soldiers are at stake, but also when American lives are at stake — which is what is at stake in many foreign policy decisions — I just wish we could return to the Nunn-Lugar era of bipartisanship, where we could work on really hard problems together. If you had that kind of backdrop, then you could imagine more congressional oversight but also not the evisceration of our foreign policy generally. So we are in a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation where polarization makes the prospect of securing congressional authorization for anything large harder to imagine. But that gets back to the first principle, where we have to deal with our polarization and start working together on issues of all stripes. I recommend to you all Samantha’s new memoir, The Education of an Idealist, and thank you very much, Samantha Power. Great to be here, Tyler.…

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