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I don't think I would say Trump has merely supported helpful policies by atrocious regimes - the man praised KJ F'ing U. But, see my above response to Questerr for some source material here.
Defend Somoza, defend Battista, defend all the brutal right wing dictatorships that were toppled by the people in those countries. If your position is that the backlash went too far to the Left, consider what it took to even mount a successful opposition, it was calculated the way it was calculated because the ruling dictatorship was just as far to the Right.
Since when does a MODERATE centrist beat a radical right wing dictatorship bent on murdering the opposition?
Tell me how that ever works.
To my knowledge it only worked once, when Walesa replaced Jaruzelski, and that only worked because the USSR was already mortally wounded and on life support, and because Jaruzelski RESIGNED.
Listen, my point is, the moderates might have had a better chance had we not witnessed recent decisions which now effectively render Trump ABOVE THE LAW. We are not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy.
It's not that I don't have a moderate side, it's not that I don't have a conservative side, it's not that I view a Bernie as a messiah, it's the fact that forty years of "moderate" Democrats apparently GAVE what the Republicans viewed as a license to self-radicalize.
And there is no question that they have.