Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵 on Nostr: "Through the Cold War period, Americans were haunted by the fear that a person with ...

"Through the Cold War period, Americans were haunted by the fear that a person with clandestine loyalties to a hostile foreign power might somehow rise to high office" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/least-now-we-know-truth-about-trump-and-vance/681872/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK322xBEKOAOqJ6N2BuUzPwvw "But what if the loyalties were not clandestine, not secret? What if a leader just plain blurted out on national television that he despises our allies, rejects treaties, and regards a foreign adversary as a personal friend? What if he did it again and again? Human beings get used to anything. But this?"