In terms of the truth or morality of praising Kim, no. But it's not as if there is no logic: Venezuela has an active opposition, NK doesn't, so we are dealing w/the existing regime. I don't agree with the latter, but as a matter of realpolitik, it's a strategy. https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1109158308970139649 …
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Replying to @BenjySarlin
Well, also, critics of VZ are all over the GOP. It's mostly just Trump himself buttering up Kim.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @BenjySarlin
Um, Trump is the president and standard bearer of the GOP. And 99% of Republicans (both politicians and pundits) ignore his extravagant praise of Kim. So you are all implicated in it.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @BenjySarlin
I, like a whole lot of people on my side, have been publicly appalled by his praise of Kim, and publicly disagreed with it as recently as...this thread. My point is just that there *is* a strategy, even if it's a terrible one repeating Obama/W/Clinton failures in Korea.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @BenjySarlin
You and people and on your side are marginal in the GOP. Also even here you are covering up for Trump. Obama/W/Clinton did not extravagantly praise North Korea's system of governance. That's a Trump speciality and the GOP now owns it.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @BenjySarlin
OK, let's lay down a marker for what is marginal: will the next GOP POTUS nominee who is not Trump say and do things like this wrt Kim? I say no. You say yes?
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You're the one who said "marginal." A POV that is marginal in the party is unlikely to return when the current leader exits. If you actually believe that, it should be no worry to commit to it.
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