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A Shining Tarnished City on a Hill 0

Michael Judge argues that Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the recent election was stolen from him have provided a playbook for autocrats abroad. A snippet:

Exhibit A is Burma, also known as Myanmar, where, after months of claiming their party’s massive losses in Nov. 8 parliamentary elections were due to “widescale fraud,” military leaders carried out a coup this week, arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her National League for Democracy party, and handing power over to army chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.

A Quibble:

I find Judge’s condescension towards the name of Myanmar problematical.

Myanmar has been Myanmar (in its native language, Mranma Prañ) for almost a thousand years. The name, “Burma,” was a legacy of British colonialism discarded three decades ago.

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