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That’ll Be Enough, Mr. Yoon
South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol imagined he might be presiding over a two-week-old military junta by now.
The media would be regulated, political activity circumscribed and maybe there'd be troops -- or "police" dressed like troops -- loitering in the streets, just in case a still-restive populace got any ideas.
Finally, at long last, he'd be able to get some things done having freed himself from the annoying constraints of democratic consensus-building.
But it wasn't to be. Just hours after shoc
I must be missing something here. Yoon sounds just like Trump to me and the way you describe it, the parallels just fall out. The biggest difference is the age of Korean democracy, 70 years at the most but considering the first years and a lack of a George Washington-type, only 20 years without authoritarian training wheels. Yoon is narcissistic like Trump but hasn’t even had the fake acting experience that Trump has had. Trump is a true paper tiger who has been dominated and eaten alive by every foreign leader he has met except Trudeau (but his mother Margaret would have turned Trump to jelly)
I hope Trump is paying attention on what can happen to a wanna be dictator.