Trump "openly praises dictatorships for their worst acts" -- I think that does set him apart from bad USA tradition
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Replying to @HeerJeet @ggreenwald
Jeanne Kirkpatrick did praise Somoza and the Shah at their worst: b/c they were preserving traditional society.
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Replying to @CoreyRobin @ggreenwald
Even Kirkpatrick, awful as she was, had fig leaf that these regimes would democratize. Trump rejects that fig leaf.
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It's o.k. with a fig leaf?
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The fig leaf creates a shared moral language which allows us to critique hypocrisy.
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