Matt Taibbi | It's Too Late to Worry About 'Normalizing' Trump. Decades of Policy Did That for Him




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The United States helped create the pre-condition for Trump by continually spreading the idea that it's OK to ally ourselves with leaders who abuse their subjects. (photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP/REX Shutterstock)
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "The idea that we don't legitimize human-rights abusers is a laugh-out-loud joke everywhere outside America. You could fill a book chapter with the history of the friendly relations between American presidents and just the foreign dictators who are credibly reported to have eaten other human beings."
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