On Wrong Side of Our Most Important Struggle
July 14, 2018 at 5:18 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Max Boot: In short, across the West, politics is once again being reduced to an atavistic struggle between the radical right and the loony left. We have avoided disaster only because there are still a few sensible leaders left such as Britains Theresa May, Frances Emmanuel Macron, Canadas Justin Trudeau and Germanys Angela Merkel who are trying to hew to the rapidly vanishing center. But they are facing virulent assault from both left-wing and right-wing extremists often supported, one way or another, by the Kremlin.
Trumps insincere praise for Merkel and May cannot disguise the disturbing reality that, in the existential struggle of our time the battle between moderation and extremism, democracy and authoritarianism the U.S. government is on the wrong side. Long the champion of Western freedom and unity, the United States under Trump has become a dark, destabilizing force that threatens to destroy the unprecedented post-1945 period of peace and prosperity.
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