7/14/18: Time runs a cover story titled “Democracy Will Prevail.” The writer is retired Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, and not what you would call a fan of President Trump. Round the world, he warns, democracy is under attack. Trump has done nothing to blunt the assault.
Stavridis explains:
America’s President, Donald
Trump, has just met in Brussels with the leaders of the countries of NATO,
arguably the most successful military alliance in human history, and
Washington’s prized partner in democracy’s 20th century victory. Throughout his
campaign and his presidency, Trump has attacked NATO and America’s allies in
it. From Brussels, he travels to Helsinki, where he will talk privately with
Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a strongman he has flattered and suggested is to be
emulated.
Trump himself has shunned
traditional norms…and his rhetoric seeks to chill freedom of the press and
undermine the nation’s institutions of democracy [emphasis added].
If the former NATO commander has little use for the president
he does see hope elsewhere, in the leadership of Germany, France, Canada, Japan
and Great Britain. As for Trump, he concludes: “Under this U.S. Administration,
there is little leadership on global human rights or democratic norms.”
Example: Trump really loves Kim Jong-un.
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