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Trump’s grotesque actions do not represent the abdication of empire, as some Trump supporters from the far left and right hope, but its degeneration.

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A world order enforced by the United States was morally unpalatable for many people on the American left. But when isolationists imagined a world without U.S. hegemony ...

Here's someone else trying to draw a bizarre equivelency between the current (far) right, which runs the US goverment and many others, and are the most popular parties in major European countries, and leads world affairs, and the (far) left, which is politically pathetic, demoralized, has capitulated ('woke 1 was crazy!'), and runs no government, holds no significant national or international power anywhere, and is no threat to.

Comparing them is a lie, an untruth, obviously absurd. What is the author's purpose? Try to look even-handed? Cower from criticism from the right and preemtively self-censor? The latter shows who indeed has the power.

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