The most bizarre outcome of the Trump-Kim Singapore summit has been the Trumpist right’s sudden infatuation with N Korea: Trump gushing over Kim JU, Fox praising him as ‘strong’ and attacking Rubio over NK, now this. I worried months ago about some zany, Trumpy outcome, and /1
while my big fear was a racist-orientalist outburst from the president about Kim or Korea, this is still pretty awful. I’m all for talks with NK, but I’m pretty sure based on past talks with NK, that we could have gotten them without a summit which unleashed yet another round /2
of creepy Trump fascination with dictators and acceleration of the American right’s slide toward that too. END
