leadership
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Admit It. You Just Want Your Own Dictator
This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better “leaders” and more “leadership” is one of the most unsavory, dangerous and un-American tendencies in political discourse. When Donald Trump was asked last week by Joe Scarborough what he made of an endorsement from Vladimir Putin — a thug who’s probably murdered journalists and political opponents and more — the GOP presidential front-runner responded, “He’s running his country, and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country.” Then he offered an incredibly dumb moral equivalency about how the United States also does “plenty of killing.”
The Man Who Wasn’t There
For the briefest of moments on Sunday night, “60 Minutes” veteran Steve Kroft decided to impersonate a newsman during his interview with Barack Obama. “He’s challenging your leadership, Mr. President. He’s challenging your leadership,” Kroft insisted, in reference to Vladimir Putin’s Syrian excursion.
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