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Important read from @jacksondiehl on how there's a lot to like in Bernie's foreign policy for anyone who cares about supporting democracy and living up to our values abroad

washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
Diehl on Bernie:

"What emerges is a politician strongly shaped by his opposition to U.S. military interventions abroad, but also by a conviction that the United States should do what it can to support democracy and resist authoritarianism"
As I've argued before, there should be a way to combine opposition to the militarization of US foreign policy *with* support for democracy in the Middle East, since democracy promotion (at least before Bush) wasn't seen as something that relied on military action
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Out of all the Democratic candidates Bloomberg was the only one who said that normal relations with China should *not* be contingent on "closing its internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups"

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Much has been written about Bloomberg's pretty bad record on domestic issues, but his foreign policy views are also legitimately frightening and completely contrary to everything the Democratic Party is supposed to stand for
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Shadi Hamid
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"The future was better yesterday."

The first line from Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' new book The Light That Failed

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Episode 11 of @WisdomCrowdsPod is live!

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