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Sit-up at attention edition.

Honest question to anyone reading this who plans to vote for Trump: how do you rationalize away his obvious admiration for dictators? How do you defend his obvious affection for Kim Jung Un?

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Steven L. Taylor
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

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  1. CSK says:

    Trump said this back in June 2018. If it didn’t bother “his people” then, it won’t now.

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  2. drj says:

    Honest question to anyone reading this who plans to vote for Trump: […] How do you defend his obvious affection for Kim Jung Un?

    How do they defend that Trump expects them to sit-up in attention, too?

    “Give me liberty or give me death” my ass.

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  3. Sleeping Dog says:

    In this AM’s NYT’s, Bret Stevens compared the “rational,” “normie” R’s to Petainists, and linked to a 1964 Times’ article on Petain and Vichy. In that article was the observation that the French right, that supported Petain and Vichy, wanted the dissolution of democracy of the Third Republic. For today’s trumpists, it is much the same, that he praises and admires dictators to them is a promise that trump will be a dictator.

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