It used to be that the most powerful nation on earth was a shining example of democracy at home while exporting suppression of the people to client states like Cuba, Egypt, Iran and various countries in Central and South America. Things have changed for the better in one respect: with the exception of Egypt, those states have either escaped from the US ambit or become democracies, or both.
There has been another change. In the land of the free, freedom of expression has been taken for granted. Journalists are heroes. But not for President Trump. Local police have taken their lead from him, abetted by federal officers in plain clothes, as British journalist, the Independent's Andrew Buncombe found out to his cost. (The ex-Western Mail man also gave a first-hand account to Vaughan Roderick.)
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