OPINION_ Dan Hannan: The world's eyes are still on Washington

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Dan Hannan: The world's eyes are still on Washington

by Dan Hannan | July 02, 2018 12:00 AM



The most alarming tendency in the United States in recent decades has been pundits’ indifference to due process when they happen to favor a particular outcome. The people who have complained most strenuously about Donald Trump’s abuses of executive power were often silent when Barack Obama did similar things — and vice versa.
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Critics of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are despondent. Turkey’s strongman has sidelined parliament, harassed opposition newspapers, imprisoned critics and weakened the independence of the judiciary. Yet he has just been re-elected on a ticket of scrapping the prime ministership and helping himself to even greater powers. Turkey’s tradition of political pluralism, long an inspiration to the region — indeed, to reformers across the Muslim world — becomes more compromised by the day.

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The most alarming tendency in the United States in recent decades has been pundits’ indifference to due process when they happen to favor a particular outcome. The people who have complained most strenuously about Donald Trump’s abuses of executive power were often silent when Barack Obama did similar things — and vice versa.

Not that we need to worry about American democracy: Its roots are deep enough to stand against any storm. But every expansive interpretation of the rules — every removal of a critic, every threat against the judiciary, every dodgy executive order, every bogus citation of security concerns — succors tyrants across the oceans.

That “city upon a hill” thing? It works both ways, cousins. The eyes of all people, including some nasty dictators, are upon you.

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