Krauthammer's central political project was to furnish a conception of American power that culminated in the Iraq invasion. He couldn't have been more explicit about it. If you think his alleged good personal traits overshadow that contribution, you need to get your head checked
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Krauthammer's later criticism of Trump wasn't a deviation from this conviction, but a continuation of it. He detested Trump on the ground that Trump was a poor steward of American empire, and perhaps a sign of its inevitable decline. He wasn't entirely wrong about that, either
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As is so often the case in American media, rather than atone for his catastrophic failures, Krauthammer only prospered. Fox News gave him a sinecure where he could present as the Reasonable Conservative. He never had to undergo any serious reckoning with the fruits of his project
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Instead he retreated into memoir-writing, so that his personal history would become a dominant feature of how he's remembered. In 2013, Fox News treated him to a gauzy special entitled, "A Life That Matters." Yeah, his life 'mattered' -- for all the wrong reasons
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Not according to this nights PBS hourly news. The usually dried up partisans Brooks and Shield and the host founding help but laud Krauthammer. Amazing enough promoting endless wars, racist troupes didn’t come up. In fact nothing negative about his history did.
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"democracy"-spreading would be more accurate, Michael. Krauthammer was no democrat.
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