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At a high-level meeting held Tuesday to discuss the current state of the negotiations, Lee’s presidential chief of staff for policy, Kim Yong-beom, reportedly emphasized the “national interest” over speedy dealmaking, instructing officials to support tariff-affected industries and “diversify” South Korea’s export markets.

There are newer gurus in elite party circles too—figures like onetime Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, pollster and onetime Obama campaign staffer David Shor, and blogger Matt Yglesias—who are more proficient with new jargon and technology but give essentially the same advice: Follow the polls, talk about middle-class economic concerns, and occasionally make it clear that you’re not one of those liberals by taking a few contrarian, conservative positions on social or cultural issues.

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said following the 12-day war that “Iran is no longer a nuclear threshold state.”

Along with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the heads of these agencies don’t have many scruples when it comes to this policy.

Others paired the White House deputy chief of staff’s name with expletives.