Commentary: Trump's latest autocrat
by Max Boot, Los Angeles Times
Nov 08, 2017
3 minutes
If there has been one constant in Donald Trump's first year in office, it is his boundless admiration of, and support for, the world's autocrats.
He congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a referendum consolidating his rule and demolishing the remnants of Turkish democracy. He told Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines that he was "doing an unbelievable job on the drug problem" by unleashing death squads that have killed thousands. He said that Russia's Vladimir Putin deserves an "A for leadership." He praised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi,
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