• Trump, National Power, Freedom Abroad (with guest Elliott Abrams)

  • Oct 29 2024
  • Length: 49 mins
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Trump, National Power, Freedom Abroad (with guest Elliott Abrams)

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  • On this episode of Domino Theory, co-hosts Christian Whiton and Mark Simon speak with Elliott Abrams about human rights in a notional Trump II administration. Abrams was as senior official in the Trump, Bush, and Reagan administrations. How did human rights become a woke progressive crusade, including against our allies, and how can a potentially reelected Trump and his top people bring it back to being a tool of unapologetic national power? We also throw around ideas for negotiating with governments like those of China and Russia, which is necessary, while still pressing human rights. BONUS: How the KGB got the attention of Tehran and its hostage-taking puppets in Lebanon.


    00:00 How human rights went woke

    04:00 Where to start de-Carterizing

    07:45 Failure of Arab Spring

    09:42 Egypt and Saudi governments are legitimate

    15:30 High-information electorate’s impact

    19:45 Talk to dictators, but raise human rights

    23:55 Americans have gotten wise to Chicoms

    29:00 Do democracy orgs still work?

    35:50 Why do we allow Iran to threaten assassination?

    40:10 Kicking kids of Chinese and Iranian elite out of US schools

    44:20 How the KGB dealt with Iranian hostage-takers
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