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No, "Soviet style" was thuggish apparatchiks yelling about fairness.
"Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience."—Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 15
Thanks for the email, but while I'm concerned by some socialist proposals by the far left, the slavish, Soviet-style devotion to party & Dear Leader by people who call themselves conservatives worries me much more.
I suppose Trumpism is the paragon of the traditional Republican desire for small government. They now want a government of just one man!
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We at @HRF must ask, but Trump praised the Chinese leaders for their "strength" after the Tienanmen massacre so there is little reason to expect he will stand up for protesters against Xi Jinping despite his trade war bluster.
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Western leftists who said Chavez/Maduro should stay in power forever got very quiet when food riots, repression & mass emigration began. Now they're saying the same things about Evo Morales. Fortunately, the Bolivian people aren't listening to them. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The arguments in defense of the centralization of power and rising authoritarianism are always different, but the results are always the same: corruption, stagnation, dictatorship, repression, violence.
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