This eyebrow-raising live confession from Trump's ex-advisor says a lot
First, it is astonishing that Bolton casually describes, as a point of pride, that he’s been involved in plotting multiple coups abroad. Now, the United States’ post-World War II history involves systematically plotting coups in countries all around the world —— in order to advance its geopolitical interests, and so it shouldn’t surprise us that a seasoned foreign policy hand like Bolton may have experience in this realm.
I can’t say I understand what inspired Bolton to break from Washington etiquette, but his cavalier attitude about admitting to abuse of power and disregarding sovereignty seems appropriate for our political age. At the same time, his distinctions about what constitutes a real threat to democracy in the U.S. don’t hold water.
Moreover, regardless of one’s assessment of how likely Trump was to succeed, right-wing populists and the Republican Party have since indicated that they support his project, and are now laying waste to the legitimacy of the democratic process altogether under the guise of election integrity. Trump's egoism is beside the point, since ultimately his party has inherited his taste for authoritarianism.
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