The DOGE Attack on Democracy Promotion
What the National Endowment for Democracy is and why it's important.
Following up on my last conversation with Larry Diamond, we go on to discuss the National Endowment for Democracy, which is as we speak being destroyed by the Trump administration through the illegal withholding of funds.
Why are you defending corruption and CIA color revolution operations? Remember when you said history ended in 1992 and globalist liberalism would dominate forever? All you need to do is look at a globe from them to see how wrong you were and still are: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/end-of-history-last-man-globe
It is fair to have skepticism about the US history of democracy promotion, given our misdeeds in Guatemala, Chile etc.
But it is also true that the US government has supported critical projects across the globe to defend human rights and democracy. I personally know of US-funded projects in Africa and Asia that have supported building democratic institutions in some of the poorest places in the world. These funds went to people on the frontlines of the fight against government corruption, labor exploitation and deforestation
Americans on the right and the left are so terribly ignorant about the leader world and our interconnectedness. The work described here is one of the few things that made me — a cynical lefty — proud of my government. It’s devastating to know all that work and good will has been destroyed.