TRUMP MADNESS

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“In my 35 years at the @nytimes, I’ve covered lots of authoritarians around the world. Many have lashed out at me or The Times, although rarely using Stalinist language like this. I’ve been threatened with deportation, arrest, execution. But in the end we’ve outlasted them, and the latest such leader—the genocidal Omar Bashir of Sudan—was just ousted and imprisoned this month. Sure, we make mistakes. Of course we welcome criticism. But venomous denunciations of “enemies of the people” have no place in a democracy, and in my experience authoritarians who ride the back of a tiger end up inside. We are better than this

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Nicholas Kristof

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In my 35 years at the @nytimes, I’ve covered lots of authoritarians around the world. Many have lashed out at me or The Times, although rarely using Stalinist language like this. I’ve been threatened with deportation, arrest, execution. But in the end we’ve outlasted them, and the latest such leader—the genocidal Omar Bashir of Sudan—was just ousted and imprisoned this month. Sure, we make mistakes. Of course we welcome criticism. But venomous denunciations of “enemies of the people” have no place in a democracy, and in my experience authoritarians who ride the back of a tiger end up inside. We are better than this.