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**NOVEMBER 10, 2020**

Meyerson on TAP

Moscow Mitch, Still With Us

OK, kids; herewith, the easiest question of the day:

What do Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Recep Erdogan, Jair Bolsonaro, and
Kim Jong Un have in common with Sean Hannity, Kevin McCarthy, and Mitch
McConnell?

You got it: They've all refused to recognize that Joe Biden is the
president-elect.

The silence of those five heads of autocratic (or worse) states stands
in sharp contrast to the response from the leaders of such democracies
as France, Germany, the U.K., Japan, India, Italy, South Korea, and many
more, who have recognized Biden's victory.

The almost down-the-line concordance of Republicans with the world's
autocracies is just the latest and most blatant example of their
party's fundamental realignment of both foreign policy and animating
vision under the sway of Donald Trump. Their preference is for illiberal
regimes, both at home and abroad. Their base is rural, as it is for
Europe's right-wing populist parties (two of which, in Poland and
Hungary, are governing parties); their enemies, as they are for
Europe's right, are diverse, tolerant, and socially liberal cities.
They have relegated democratic norms to a secondary (if that) status; in
their place, they have elevated illiberal anti-modernity, and in so
doing have made common cause with a host of either wannabe or actual
tyrants.

If Republicans were to fully own up to the implications of their new
worldview, and if they were to go in for this year's dethroning of
public monuments, they'd attack the World War II Memorial on the
National Mall. Those Americans honored there gave their lives for a
cause in which today's Republicans appear not to believe, and against
enemies all too many of whose values today's Republicans share.

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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