https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/07/blob-abides/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/07/blob-abide... > The term emerged from a New Yo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/07/blob-abides/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/07/blob-abide... > The term emerged from a New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama’s foreign policy amanuensis. According to Rhodes’s account in the story, “the Blob includes Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and other Iraq-war promoters from both parties who now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East.” > The term soon became omnipresent in foreign policy discussions as its definition expanded in scope. It came to mean the foreign policy “establishment” that included those working in government, think tanks, and academia. Four years later, the term, like “globalization” or “neoliberalism” or “populist” or “elite,” tends to obscure as much as it reveals.