Nobel laureate Paul Krugman explains why the sick and narcissistic Malignant Fascist's embrace of the tyrant Kim Jong Un's regime is especially repellent, but expected:
"I know that Donald Trump does something new and terrible every day, sometimes several times a day. Yet his betrayal of South Korea in favor of his 'very good relationship with Kim Jong Un' stands out even among his many betrayals.
Why? Because North Korea isn’t simply a bad government, just another murderous authoritarian regime. It is something that has become rare, even among dictatorships: a full-blown totalitarian state, in which the government controls every aspect of life and even thinking dissident thoughts is a crime. [snip]
Much of the commentary I’ve seen about Trump lashing out at South Korea has focused on the damage to U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy. How can anyone consider us a reliable ally at this point? Fair enough.
But it’s even more important to realize that Trump clearly prefers a nightmarish, totalitarian dictatorship — the worst regime on the planet — to a vibrant, successful democracy. A democracy, by the way, that more than 36,000 Americans gave their lives to defend during the Korean War.
America has a president who hates everything our nation was supposed to stand for." (our emphasis)
These are dark time in which the nominal leader of the nation is actively promoting our adversaries, while deliberately alienating our long time allies (Canada, Mexico, the UK, the European Union, South Korea, Taiwan, and on and on).
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