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Imagine that you knew nothing about the president of Zimbabwe, but that you were informed that he liked to steal elections.

Imagine that you also learned that he was destroying civil liberties in his country, jailing people without charge, without legal counsel, without habeas corpus rights. And spying on tens of thousands of citizens without warrants.

Imagine that you found out that this Zimbabwean president was torturing and even murdering innocent captives in illegal prisons.

What if, additionally, you found out that he was kidnaping foreigners and dumping them in secret jails elsewhere, so that they could be tortured even more egregiously?

Suppose you also learned that this president refused to fight for his homeland when he was a young man, but was now fabricating from whole cloth justifications for sending his countrymen off to war.

And that he talked all day long about what great heroes these soldiers were, and how anyone who criticized his policies was not supporting the troops, while simultaneously failing to provide sufficient armor and equipment to protect them.

But that he was nevertheless doling out heaping scoops of the public treasury (and borrowing more) to well-connected mercenary and construction companies who do nothing and are paid exorbitantly via no-bid contracts.

What if you heard that this president staffed his administration with cronies who would do anything he asked of them, but nothing for the people?

Imagine that these cronies stole everything in the country that wasn’t bolted down, and gave it to the president’s already über-wealthy supporters.

What if this president rearranged the tax structure so that in the future the middle class would have to pay today’s and tomorrow’s taxes for the wealthy, plus interest?

What if he told the most outrageous lies about the environmental destruction he was supporting, in order to protect the profits of massively rich oil companies?

What if he was too lazy to do anything about the warnings he received prior to his country being attacked, and instead remained on vacation for a solid month?

What if he remained on vacation again, when one of his country’s greatest cities drowned, and was left to struggle on its own thereafter?

Suppose his policies made Zimbabwe one of the most reviled countries of the world.

What if those policies encouraged the international proliferation of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction?

Imagine all of these things, and then ask yourself: What would you call someone with a record like that?

No matter where he lived, you’d call him a predatory kleptocrat. And a traitor.

If this president lived in Zimbabwe, you’d call him Robert Mugabe.

But he doesn’t. He lives here.



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