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Republican strategist says might be planning a midterm surprise for Trump
The Real Story Is Not Iran. It Is Who Gets to Name the Threat.Power Wears the Flag, Then Hides Behind ItThe source story is about Karl Rove warning that Iran may try to hurt Trump politically by pushing oil prices up during the midterm season. That is the surface. The deeper fact is simpler: the people with actual institutional power are not some abstract foreign adversary in the reporting. They are the president, the party apparatus, and the operatives who decide how war, sanctions, polling, and messaging get packaged for voters.Rove is not describing a neutral security problem. He is…
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