and you see Chiang Kai Shek's face everywhere in Taiwan
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Maxmordon
there's been a lot of commentary about how the US thought it was beyond "strongman" politics but now here's Donald Trump
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I was actually talking about this with a Cuban-American journalist. The Trump phenomenon helps to explain so much to USians.
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right, that policy and ideology become less important than the symbolic leader
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Trump's beliefs change all the time but his fans don't care, they project their emotions onto him
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Same thing with Chávez,. Before being elected he denounced Castro and openly admired Pérez Jiménez, a US-backed dictator.
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I had a Venezuelan coworker when I worked in DC tourism, when I asked him about Chavez he just said "don't get me started"
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I'm well aware by the fact I will be talking about Chávez pretty much til the day I die. I don't mind, actually.
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I feel like there was a certain naïveté among American leftists about him
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...in a borderline fetishistic way out of frustration for seeing developing countries more "pure" or something.
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it's tough to weigh in on the rest of the world without being paternalistic no matter what your politics
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