Karl Vick
Time Magazine
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
A Reckoning After Trump’s Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?
The story we tell the world is also the story we tell
ourselves. Trump began June by blowing up the G-7 gathering of the world’s
leading democracies by refusing to sign a joint statement endorsing “shared
values of freedom, democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights and
our commitment to promote a rules-based international order.” He slapped
tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the European Union, advised France to drop out of
the E.U., and urged Germans to support right-wing anti-immigrant parties intent
on deposing Chancellor Angela Merkel. The leaders of France and Canada replied
by citing “values,” but Trump had moved on to Singapore, where he praised North
Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un, whose regime actively operates a network of
gulags, as “a funny guy … very smart … his country does love him. You see the
fervor.”
