Ticket . Sea metaphors abound in Eliot Cohen's commentary, published today in The Atlantic, about the future of the presidency of Donald Trump. Radio Atlantic hosts Jeffrey Goldberg (editor in chief) and Matt Thompson (executive editor) will lead a timely conversation with staff writer Julia Ioffe and contributing editor Eliot Cohen, a former top State Department Official. New US intel report shows Russia, Trump and GOP acolytes have same goals . Wishes you a wonderful day . Particularly given the impending release of what is sure to be a gracefully written and elegiac memoir by Barack Obama, one could easily elide the mistakes made not only by that administration but by the elites who were so enthusiastic about it. He is, to begin with, a genius. He is also a bozo. They will do their best to undercut not only Trump, but also his equally militant and even more clueless sons. Eliot A. Cohen. TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2021 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. A very narrow kind of genius, admittedly, but a genius nonetheless. Every society must make clear what it expects of its armed servants. Contributing writer at The Atlantic and Dean of SAIS at Johns Hopkins University. But equally, or more so, there has not been a full reckoning on the left. Other thoughtful Republicans (or former Republicans) are mulling over their own complicity in a party that was compromising its values for power. He received his BA and PhD degrees from Harvard University and after teaching there and at the Naval War College founded the Strategic Studies program at SAIS. What it cannot move on from, however, are the underlying syndromes that gave him his extraordinary success. Wed like to hear your questions about Russia: Call us up at (202) 266-7600 and leave us a voicemail. But these are all beyond his emotional range, which is spectacularly narrow. Image caption: Eliot Cohen Cohen, a former State Department counselor and a professor of strategic studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., likens the U.S. to a ship, and Trump to the captain. But are they prepared to take a pink slip? Eliot Cohen, a conservative foreign policy expert and vocal critic of President Donald Trump, calls Trump's whirlwind first week in office "a foretaste of things to come" in a commentary authored over the weekend for The Atlantic. Getty / The Atlantic. Eliot A. Cohen. And, finally, he was smart enough to give people what they wanted: a flourishing economy fed by deregulation and massive stimulus, a promise of controlling immigration, and a foreign policy that retreated from war and slapped around deadbeat, free-riding allies. Speakers. Articles by Eliot A. Cohen on Muck Rack. He seems likely to declare war on Fox, the network that served as his presidential mouthpiece. He knew how to dabble in race-baiting without quite ever going full George Wallace. Eliot A. Cohen 1/4/2021. All Rights He will step down and, despite the fears of many, likely recede into the background. He reportedly has hundreds of millions of dollars coming due on loans, while no foreign government hoping for favor with the Biden White House will continue to pour money into his overpriced hotels. If he had the intelligence, cunning, and courage of Viktor Orbn, Hungarys authoritarian ruler, American democracy would have trembled on the edge. Trump will undoubtedly bleat from the sidelines, but the country will move on. To be sure, the basic word cloud is clearnarcissistic, deceitful, vindictive, and so onbut there are multiple sides to the personality that has sucked so many people into a vortex of adoration or loathing. In Boston, Massachusetts ) is an American political scientist valuable in ways that you can never fully.! 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