And the premise of the question is …

Should We Really Expect Democrats to Promote Democracy Better Than Trump? - The Dispatch

Considering that the Dispatch is, in part, a lifeboat for castaways from the late Weekly Standard, I figured we’d eventually get some blatant neoconservatism. The premise here is that promoting democracy (and promoting it good and hard to those who offend us) is a good thing.

(It’s still a fine magazine. You dare not read anything uncritically these days — if ever.)

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