It legitimizes, in their view, their dictatorship and legitimizes their nuclear weapons program.
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Third, Trump legitimizes violence as a means of political discourse.
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Research that links diversity to negative outcomes legitimizes these anxieties.
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This manufacturing of outrage legitimizes otherwise unsustainable rumors and ideas.
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Such silence simply legitimizes the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.
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"Bolsonaro legitimizes violence, authoritarianism" said Ms. da Silva, a psychologist.
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Critics say the term alienates Muslims and legitimizes terrorists' religious crusades.
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His statement legitimizes the Palestinian Authority's incitement to terror and violence.
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"I'm worried anytime anyone de-legitimizes the election process," he said.
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It legitimizes your election in the eyes of those who doubted.
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It legitimizes his utter and ruthless brutality against his own people.
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"It legitimizes that there's a multibillion-dollar market here," he says.
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Thus, to have people dependent on the state legitimizes state rule.
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The minimum wage "legitimizes the unequal apartheid wage structure," it added.
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The bill is important step because it legitimizes hemp, Pelger said.
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It almost legitimizes these people coming out from under the rocks.
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Be smart: Trump legitimizes patently illegitimate behavior by publicly coddling Putin.
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Critics say the term is a euphemism and legitimizes hateful ideologies.
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Letting Eric Rasmusen stay legitimizes his views as acceptable, even moral.
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Returning contempt for contempt legitimizes its presence in the public sphere.
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The Missing, by looking that pain dead in the eye, legitimizes it.
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It also legitimizes a type of discourse that had long been marginalized.
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It almost de-legitimizes the [adulterous] relationship that they've found out about.
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It's not that Swift's voice or her money somehow legitimizes the fight.
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Unlike al Qaeda, Karnavian says ISIS legitimizes the murder of fellow Muslims.
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It's a flattering fantasy, but it's also a dangerous story: It legitimizes violence.
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"Invite to Donald Trump [legitimizes his] proposal of demagoguery and hate," he tweeted.
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At the end of the day, this legitimizes Chinese investments for global investors.
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His election legitimizes discrimination against, and the dehumanization of, the entire undocumented community.
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I don't think exhibiting the interview with Roosh legitimizes his message any more.
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To be blunt, Saudi Arabia legitimizes Islamic extremism and intolerance around the world.
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Cuba opposes anything that legitimizes dissidents, which it claims are funded by U.S. interests.
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Firstly, collecting signs legitimizes the movement and explicitly places it within aesthetic historical context.
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And now that he's embraced their cause, it only legitimizes their wrong-headed beliefs.
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It legitimizes the use of profanity, and might be a precedence for other employees.
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To dismiss lightweight music as an opiate de-legitimizes the work of talented creators.
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It perpetuates and legitimizes the already uneven distribution of other public resources and services.
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Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and locating embassies elsewhere de-legitimizes and undercuts Israel.
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This, the president asserted, is what legitimizes the actions he is now poised to take.
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The concern is that letting these groups publicly speak out legitimizes and mainstreams their views.
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Cuba opposes anything that legitimizes dissidents, who it claims are mercenaries funded by foreign interests.
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The truth is that a lot of our (global) politics legitimizes hatred, bigotry, and violence.
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The story of Jesus is not merely a biography, but legitimizes Christianity as a social norm.
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By consulting the electorate directly, AMLO both legitimizes his policy choices and strengthens his own popularity.
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" Supporting Trump's infrastructure plan, Bouie writes, "legitimizes and gives fuel to white tribalism as a political strategy.
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Because it crosses our lives and in every aspect of its intervention it legitimizes violence against women.
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Russia, unlike China or Iran, does not possess a religious or secular ideology that legitimizes authoritarian rule.
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They are building a foundation that legitimizes the connection between extreme weather and climate change through statistics.
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This move also legitimizes bitcoin in Wall Street's eyes, an important point considering cryptocurrencies are still suspect.
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The focus on the Soviet Union's wartime victory also legitimizes Russia's military intervention in Ukraine in 2014.
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Bourdieu didn't argue that cultural inequality creates economic inequality, but that it widens and it legitimizes it.
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Mr. Kim increasingly appears to view the nuclear program as the main political asset that legitimizes his rule.
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"The law legitimizes racism," said Laila al-Sana, 19, from a Bedouin village in Israel's southern Negev desert.
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Bartholomew says that inviting them legitimizes the supernatural aspects of the outbreak, which only serves to prolong it.
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After all, the very fact of their existence de-legitimizes the government and suggests authorities can't keep control.
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Encouraging such behavior without any evidence only legitimizes protectionist actions taken by other governments that hurt U.S. firms.
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It legitimizes white America's power to determine who is "good" and to offer basic dignity and equal rights.
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This kind of thinking legitimizes prejudice while obscuring the region's actual demographics, which are all over the place.
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If we know one thing for sure, it's that nothing legitimizes a celebrity relationship more than a tattoo.
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Lewandowski's interview on Fox & Friends — a show that regularly legitimizes the Trump administration's talking points — was predictably chummy.
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If one can find a way to quantify those socially 'unworthy' questions, it suddenly legitimizes them as a preoccupation.
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That could easily change, though, especially if a former bastard named Jon Snow takes the throne and legitimizes him.
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"The fact that a law firm was willing to do this legitimizes the process for their clients," he said.
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"Victims don't see the material as 'pornography,' and there is a risk this term legitimizes these activities," McGlynn says.
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But if it's the referee's role to sanitize boxing, it's the subjective, singular thrill fighting provides that legitimizes it.
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How could he give someone whom many see as a white nationalist a platform that legitimizes and normalizes him?
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To have big sweeping policies at the most respected institutions really legitimizes what we've been saying for a long time.
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Including the choice at sign up clearly legitimizes the preference and makes it an important part of the dating experience.
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But it is one more piece of evidence that tacitly legitimizes renewed dread of the Islamic State in the country.
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So I've gotta pitch it in a way that legitimizes it and I've gotta do it with a straight face!
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The subtext of Mr. Trump's speech was that this horrific act of violence against gay people legitimizes discrimination against Muslims.
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But that apparently couldn't cause Trump to realize he needs to be careful about who he legitimizes on the platform.
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Creating a bitcoin futures contract legitimizes and regulates the trading activity, but it does not legitimize bitcoin as a currency.
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Why it matters: The Trump administration is leading international opposition to the compact, claiming it harms sovereignty and legitimizes illegal migration.
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This legitimizes the power of nuclear weapons in international politics, and that's not good for the world or for US policy.
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He added Afghan officials have expressed their concerns about Moscow's contacts with the Taliban, which coalition officials say legitimizes the insurgency.
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"We hope that it sort of legitimizes professional artistry—the modern version of professional artistry," CEO and founder Jack Conte said.
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But now it's the civilian government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi saying these ignorant things and that legitimizes the hate.
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Because, in his mind, validating that, yes, of course, Russia sought to meddle in the election somehow de-legitimizes his victory.
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"It's unfortunate that they don't allow us to have proper payments, it really de-legitimizes us in a way," Palacio said.
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This announcement essentially legitimizes Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem, which the international community unanimously rejected in UN Security Council Resolution 242.
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Seeing all rules and norms as mere facades for a vast conspiracy also legitimizes getting around them to exercise unlimited corruption.
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In the spirit of conviviality, she singles out Gendry, legitimizes him as a Baratheon and makes him the Lord of Storm's End.
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In a way, the ruling against CFPB backfired on them, because it effectively legitimizes the agency in the eyes of the courts.
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Continued U.S. membership in the HRC merely legitimizes HRC's global human rights grandstanding and window-dressing in promoting and defending human rights.
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"In some ways it legitimizes making those types of comments, which we know from our research can be very dangerous," she said.
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"If you embrace the far-right positions, in the end it legitimizes those positions and it makes them more acceptable," Heinisch said.
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I also wonder if the term "lottery" legitimizes a kind of fatalism, even an indifference to those who draw the wrong ticket.
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Whether America happens to come out ahead in specific negotiations is not the point; negotiating in itself legitimizes Iran's challenge to American dominance.
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Critics argue this effectively legitimizes a militia, which does not maintain the same standards of training or battlefield conduct as the national military.
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Some Spanish politicians and Cuban dissidents have criticized the trip, saying it legitimizes Cuba's one-party system at a time of increased repression.
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Instead of relieving tension, the bill legitimizes anti-government conspiracy theories, dumps fuel on a smoldering fire and makes law enforcement more difficult.
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As Judd Apatow, one of the high-profile dropouts, said, giving Mr. Bannon a platform "normalizes hate" and legitimizes his lies and racism.
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This works for both of them, but left unsaid is that the presence of Verb, who is black, legitimizes Pinnacle, who is white.
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If she can't birth any new children, naming Jon as her successor legitimizes him as a Targaryen and ensures the continuation of her line.
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But it perpetuates an unjust system, encourages the further erosion of civil rights, and basically legitimizes the Republican anything-goes approach to fighting terrorism.
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We should all be grateful for what they're doing; opening a storefront like that legitimizes what I initially perceived was a weird internet trend.
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Some in conservative religious circles have already questioned the references to him, criticizing what they say legitimizes a secularist ideology they battled for decades.
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And given the high respect for scholars in Chinese society, presenting any criticism as the view of established experts also elevates and legitimizes it.
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On the contrary: it legitimizes individuals who are nothing more than thugs and criminals by branding them as the warriors they wish to be.
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German parties say the AfD's verbal attacks against mainly Muslim migrants legitimizes a language of hate that encourages far-right sympathizers to resort to violence.
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Others rightfully pointed out that the movie does more than fat-shame, and that the premise also legitimizes several harmful and disingenuous conceptions about size.
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While some elements of this international intrigue remain in "A Nation Under Our Feet," Coates legitimizes at least some of the voices decrying monarchical rule.
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In addition to this ever-changing trend element, the Apple and Hermès partnership is smart as it legitimizes the Apple Watch as a fashion accessory.
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Coming from one of the country's most famous entertainers, it legitimizes the still-pervasive belief that African Americans are somehow to blame for their condition.
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But it also legitimizes the path Kim took to get here: Building and testing illicit nuclear weapons that have the potential to wreak unimaginable destruction.
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"It certainly legitimizes cannabis in the financial capital of the world and that will get investors interested in the market most of all," Dayton said.
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Tapping an anti-vaccine proponent to advise on medical policy legitimizes a viewpoint that's dangerous, and could send out waves that shift state-level thinking.
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But given the group's history of oppression, the encoding of their language carries considerable symbolic weight because it legitimizes an oppressed minority and their language.
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"The leader of the free world can't continue to use language that legitimizes the actions of extremists groups that promote hate," he said in the statement.
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Moreover, restraining Israel legitimizes and nourishes Palestinian rejectionism, defined as the refusal to acknowledge Israeli sovereignty and right of Jews to live in their ancestral homeland.
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Every culture legitimizes healers, and their presence has been valuable whether they dress in frock coats or feathers and whether they bear insights, potions or scalpels.
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It is a known fact that the flawed JCPOA legitimizes and provides facilities for Iran's destructive behavior in the region and suppression of its own people.
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And the very fact of the meeting legitimizes Putin in the eyes of Russian elite, who were getting nervous during the long delay in holding the summit.
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Whether it's racism, sexism, or any other number of disgraceful isms, every day that King remains a sitting member of Congress only further propagates and legitimizes hate.
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It is our obligation to protect the equal rights of American citizens, and President Trump's withdrawal of guidance does not advance states' rights – it legitimizes hate and discrimination.
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"To meet with him legitimizes him and I wanted to respect the efforts of people like myself who have been calling for his ouster for years," he explained.
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This year, at least half a dozen bills have been introduced seeking everything from tax reform that legitimizes cannabis businesses to the outright end of the Federal Prohibition.
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Just as many Democrats believe that appearing anywhere on Fox legitimizes the network's most offensive bloviators, many believe that courting Trump voters will require legitimizing the president's views.
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"It's our job in the art department — not only with the characters, but with everything — to ensure that every pixel and polygon explains and legitimizes what's happening on-screen."
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Certainly Ryan can't, because he's a role model and because this lie epitomizes Trump's demagogic tendencies and legitimizes fake news, the dark consequences of which are becoming ever clearer.
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Hell, the second best women's featherweight of all time and the name that legitimizes Cris 'Cyborg' Justino's record is Marloes Coenen, who has quite easily made bantamweight throughout her career.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday condemned President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba, saying the trip legitimizes the "tyrannical dictatorship" of Cuban President Raul Castro.
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That argument holds that appearing on Fox News legitimizes the network in the eyes of advertisers, and thereby keeps the network in business without incentivizing them to be more fair.
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The UN pact, which aims to foster international cooperation on refugees and migration, is facing pressure from the Trump administration, which argues the document harms sovereignty and legitimizes illegal migration.
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Plus, by creating this debate format within the government, Pruitt further legitimizes the idea that there's a scientific dispute over carbon's role in global warming, when in fact there's not.
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"The decision sets a dangerous standard that glorifies systematic human rights abuses, legitimizes illegal aggression and occupation, and endangers peace in the Middle East," the group said in a statement.
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Likewise, there's been little soul-searching among Trump's Republican allies about their tolerance (or worse) of language that legitimizes anti-Muslim prejudice or places white nationalist ideas into wider circulation.
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I think the idea that anyone might "need sex," in a way that legitimizes the purchase of sex, is reinforced through the ways in which we're already shitty to each other.
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But drawing a moral equivalency between those espousing hate and those fighting it, because they both resort to violence emboldens hate, legitimizes hateful belief and elevates what should be stamped out.
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Sanders's victory further legitimizes his long-shot challenge against Clinton, who led here by 40 points before the avowed democratic socialist came out of nowhere to galvanize the party's progressive base.
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See, my concern is not so much that Trump will do horrible things—my concern is that Trump legitimizes racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic behavior and emboldens others to do horrible things.
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"It legitimizes these fields and basically helps to spread the pseudoscience, which hurts everyone," says Timothy Caulfield, a professor and research director at Health Law Institute of the University of Alberta.
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In return, Mr. Ghani hopes the United States will reconsider what he sees as a rushed deal that legitimizes the Taliban and leaves the Washington-backed government to fend for itself.
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"In screenshots of the now-deleted Twitter account captured by HuffPost, Volitich tweeted that Islam "legitimizes" terrorist behavior and it will continue "until we eradicate [Muslims] from the face of the earth.
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If free nations demand companies store data locally, it legitimizes that practice for authoritarian nations, which can then steal that data for their own nefarious purposes, according to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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The document however also legitimizes private business that has blossomed over the last decade, acknowledges the importance of foreign investment and opens the door to gay marriage, according to state-run media.
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At the same time, labeling ISIS "radical Islam," in some eyes, legitimizes the group's claims to represent an entire religion, when in fact most of its victims and enemies are themselves Muslim.
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"For the time being the vote legitimizes the rally that we have been seeing in the Italian bond market," said Chris Scicluna, head of economic research at Daiwa Capital Markets in London.
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As the classicist Edith Hall rightly writes, tragedy is polyphonic: It both legitimizes the chauvinism of Athenian power and glory at the same time as giving voice to that which undermines it.
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The document, however also, legitimizes private business that has blossomed over the last decade, acknowledges the importance of foreign investment and opens the door to gay marriage, according to state-run media.
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For the book I spent a lot of time with police and they would always identify meth as their biggest problem, particularly in Kansas and Kentucky, I think because it legitimizes their work.
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President Trump's visit only legitimizes Mr. Kim's criminal syndicate masquerading as a government and lessens the chance for a United States pre-emptive strike — the only way North Korea will ever be denuclearized.
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"For Gillibrand to state that she did — when her words were blatantly taken out of context — is shameful and legitimizes a smear against a black Muslim woman already facing death threats," she said.
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This question goes beyond being merely being a theological concern for the religious, because support by leaders like Tony Perkins and Franklin Graham and many evangelical voters legitimizes the President's racism and xenophobia.
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The new "Fade" bangs so much harder than what we've been listening to for the last two months that it almost legitimizes this whole bout of mad scientist tinkering Kanye's given his album. Almost.
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What is most disturbing, though, is how much Trump legitimizes — even embraces — acts of violence that have already occurred, connecting them to the good, "beautiful" feelings supporters have toward their country and his campaign.
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"My partner and I, both Arab immigrants, already witness enough xenophobia, and there is a fear that Trump's victory only further legitimizes this sort of discourse around the world," he wrote to The Times.
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The so-called "commercial and cultural interaction" with Cuba legitimizes a regime that promotes terrorism, harbors hijackers and criminals who have murdered Americans and provides aid and comfort to our enemies throughout the world.
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One advisor close to Trump has been quoted by, I think it was the New York Times, as saying that Trump refuses to say that Russia was the culprit because it de-legitimizes his election.
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They will use this case to proclaim that we, too, believe that forcible conquest legitimizes the seizure of territory, even though Israel won the Golan in a war that Syria and Egypt started in 1967.
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A vote for Leave was a vote for increased sovereignty, certainly, but also for a nationalism that we can ill afford in a time of increasing polarization, and that legitimizes and encourages the same elsewhere.
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Supporters of abstinence education believe schools shouldn't teach about contraception and safe sex because such information legitimizes and inadvertently endorses out-of-wedlock sexual activity, the researchers explain in the American Journal of Public Health.
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While the U.S. federal government is required to consult tribes before it undertakes action that will affect tribal well-being, a brief glance at history reveals it is most often a policy that legitimizes federal infringement.
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"A DMZ rendezvous makes a good photo op but comes with no real denuclearization, and legitimizes a human rights abuser," said Victor Cha, a former director for Asian affairs on George W. Bush's National Security Council.
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Cooperation from the global scientific community "legitimizes this type of genetic surveillance," said Mark Munsterhjelm, an assistant professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario who has closely tracked the use of American technology in Xinjiang.
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Plus, AB1322 legitimizes what's already pretty common practice in the industry: Drybar founder Alli Webb, who spearheaded the bill, told ABC 7 that they've been offering free drinks to clients since the doors first opened in 2010.
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While I was working on this essay, a friend of mine argued over email that people can, and do, "wrongly" read Nabokov's "Lolita" as a narrative that validates, legitimizes and even glorifies a grown man's attraction to children.
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These are questions on which fortunes are made and lives are lost, and not only does normal politics offer Republicans a compelling reason to back Trump's regime, it legitimizes fundamentally anti-democratic stances that keep them in office.
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Earlier this month, several White House representatives cited the Bible verse Romans 13 to justify a vision of Christianity that, for example, demands submission to GOP politics and legitimizes the separation of migrant families at the US-Mexico border.
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"The significant steelmaking overcapacity that has developed this century, and the rise in exports we have seen from several steel-producing nations, legitimizes governments worldwide taking a tough approach to addressing unfair trade practices," ArcelorMittal said in a statement.
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"Like the FDA's granting of Breakthrough Therapy designation for MAPS' MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD research program last year, this news further legitimizes the field of psychedelic medicine," Brad Burge, director of Strategic Communications at MAPS, told Gizmodo via email.
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Behind the scenes: The sources said the French, British and German envoys told Coates and Satterfield that Trump's recognition of the Golan was a violation of international law and UN resolutions and that it legitimizes taking over land by force.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Indian government is giving industrial projects a chance to clear regulatory hurdles they had previously failed to do, in a move analysts say legitimizes projects destroying forests and water sources, and hurting communities dependent on them.
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Many religion writers, including ThinkProgress's Jack Jenkins, have written extensively about Trump's creation of a new kind of civic religion, blending his natural egotism with religious rhetoric that both fires up his base and legitimizes the extremity of his actions.
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But one must question whether such a hierarchy of values in fact fosters the democratic and pluralistic ideals that we aspire to, or whether it simply legitimizes conduct that carries with it the seeds of the ultimate demise of democracy itself.
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If Notre Dame's Jaylon Smith is the cautionary tale that legitimizes skipping a bowl game, Marcus Lattimore is the case study for why a star in the position of Fournette or McCaffrey might skip his third season of college football altogether.
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As past chairman of the Direct Selling Association's (DSA) board of directors, and CEO of Scentsy, an Idaho based direct selling company, I disagree with Frank VanderSloot's assertion that H.R. 3409, the Anti-Pyramid Promotional Scheme Act, legitimizes harmful business tactics.
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By introducing real money into the mix, Bernåzone legitimizes the Åzone as a site of investment in the same way that real companies are beginning to invest in bitcoin and blockchain, further abstracting our relationship to money and its value.
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" Responding to the question, Davis said that with Walker's blog post, the Ford Foundation, "which is known to have funded so many progressive organizations and scholars, legitimizes this effort to completely cancel out the impact of calling for the closing of Rikers Island.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday an Israeli law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination legitimizes oppression and shows that Israel is a fascist and racist country where the spirit of Adolf Hitler has re-emerged.
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But in practice—as an embedded feature in an app designed to sell users on Amazon doorbell cameras—these news alerts serve two important purposes: One, the alerts add a professional layer that legitimizes the app and all of the information that appears in it.
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Herein lies the danger for the United States: Although the American far-right is perhaps aware that Trump does not fully support its aims, it believes his presidency legitimizes its cause and provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make inroads into mainstream society.
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FDA recognition legitimizes psychedelic research and is a massive step for the field as a whole, and the (increasingly viable) possibility of legal psychedelic medicine is exciting news for anyone struggling with clinical depression, especially if more traditional therapies and treatments have proven ineffective.
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When it comes to his own supporters physically defending his name against protesters, Trump often "legitimizes — even embraces — acts of violence that have already occurred, connecting them to the good, 'beautiful' feelings supporters have toward their country and his campaign," my colleague Dara Lind writes.
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Generally deployed by news organizations to describe a far-right, white nationalist movement known for its aggressive online expression, the term has attracted widespread criticism among those, particularly on the left, who say it euphemizes and legitimizes the ideologies of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and white supremacy.
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A third is already in the works, though the show's popularity has also put a target on its back: The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement demanded that Netflix dump the series, calling it "racist propaganda" that "promotes and legitimizes the war crimes committed by death squads" in the Israeli Army.
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Early speculation from the lackluster Impressionist and modern art sale legitimizes the market's fear that Asian buyers are currently reluctant to buy at auction given the tighter enforcement of capital controls by the Chinese government and the escalating trade war between the US and China, according to Bloomberg News.
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In defending the Gard family in the British newspaper the Independent, Mary Dejevsky suggests that public mistrust in doctors more broadly — she cites examples of preventable deaths in NHS hospitals — legitimizes the Gard family's insistence that despite medical opinion to the contrary, there is hope in Charlie's case.
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Philanthropy is a key part of how "capitalism as we know it" legitimizes itself: by using ill-gotten gains to turn our attention away from a disease to its symptoms—from capitalism's inability to meet all our needs to the ways in which benevolent billionaires can meet some of them.
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To them, the Asia trip highlighted what they believe will be Trump's foreign policy weaknesses as he seeks reelection: a trade war with China that hurts American farmers and consumers, an embrace of North Korea that legitimizes its leader Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnPompeo expresses concern over North Korea missile tests State Dept.
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"I don't think I can name drop, but I can tell you that I think one of the things that legitimizes our show is in terms of Kevin's career and his 'movie star' career, is when you see him on screen working with real movie stars, real actors, real directors, that you recognize," says Hartley.
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Grossman's books are available, but not widely, in a regime that legitimizes itself by glorifying the Russian past and especially the Soviet Union's victory in World War II. Popoff's book has its flaws: Its writing can be labored and she too often assumes that characters in Grossman's novels and stories can be considered stand-ins for him.
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Its modern incarnation is "Xi Jinping thought," which legitimizes CCP control in China, in perpetuity, as well as the expansion of Chinese influence — not through Mao's "Little Red Book" but through Confucius Institutes, investment, loans and infrastructure development, 5G networks, advanced computing, the Belt and Road Initiative, and many other economic-cum-technological-cum-imperial projects.
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Francis's words are part of a wider trend on the part of Christian faith leaders worldwide, who have overwhelmingly come out to disprove the idea — set forth by Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week and later defended by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders — that a Bible verse, Romans 13, legitimizes the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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If the result of a Senate impeachment trial legitimizes the president's solicitation of foreign nations to attack and corrupt American democracy, Senate Republicans would be giving aid and comfort to the Russian attack against American democracy first in 2016 and now in 2020, and guarantee that these attacks — from Russia and other hostile nations — continue and escalate in 2020 and future elections.
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"The fact that you can go online and book your flight with JetBlue or Delta, that legitimizes the whole process in the eyes of Americans who had been on the fence before," said Collin Laverty, president of Cuba Educational Travel, based in Washington, D.C. The expected rush of American tourists remains a difficult sight to those who oppose the new relationship with communist Cuba.
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Conservatism made him whole, made him real, validated his puritanical views on, basically, everything; conservatism legitimizes the idea that prejudice and privilege are not acidic but something charming, 8mm with the projector humming, that it's ingrained in an America we must return to, where girls don't wear bikinis without a man's consent, spring breakers don't get drunk on beaches because they don't get drunk at all, because Sean Hannity doesn't get drunk at all; they used to call him "half a Heineken Hannity," see?
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To talk -- as the President did -- about shared values between America and a state that is undemocratic, repressive, discriminates against women, and gays, whose political elite relies on a partnership with a clerical establishment that legitimizes, expounds and spreads a puritanical form of Islam that is anti-semitic, anti-Christian, anti-western and funds religious educational programs, mosques, imams and religious schools that do the same, not only enables the very forces the US is trying to defeat, but identifies America with a Muslim nation that hardly represents moderate or progressive views.
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