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  1. …in reply to @omarbsr
    @omarbsr @DavidMorash @IChotiner Thanks to you & @davidmorash for the shoutout. My arg about accusations that Obama "acted like Bush" turned on how one defined "acting like Bush." With Trump you'd need to start w/ identifying a specific act to think about before you could coherently trace precedents (if any).
    1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
      @omarbsr @DavidMorash @IChotiner For example, Trump bombing the Syrian government without congressional authorization can trace back to Obama and Libya in 2011 as a precedent. But Trump declaring a national "emergency" to spend more on his border wall than Congress was willing to appropriate was something new.