@donovan_smith Afraid I didn’t catch his name, and I don’t see it on the podcast site. Was the guest taking your place for the episode on capital punishment.
He was very cynical of the DPP’s sincerity on abolishing the death penalty or getting rid of CKS statues, so I think (hope?) he was being sarcastic. Maybe.
“Interestingly, had they executed more people, when Trump was in office, the US would have been like, yeah, go for it, because the Trump administration was pro-death penalty. So they would have gotten even more points with the United States had they used the death penalty more frequently during the Trump presidency.”
From Taiwan This Week: The death penalty debated, Apr 25, 2024
@LoneLocust Yeah, that sounds like him. We've butted heads on that show many times. I've noticed that I haven't been paired with him for a couple of years, so I suspect Ross requested to not be paired with me. He knows his stuff, but so do I, and he can't bully me into submission through mastery of facts because I can easily match or exceed him.
@donovan_smith As a non-Taiwanese foreigner living half a planet away, who does not speak Mandarin, I don't really get to have an informed opinion about Taiwan politics. What I get is either filtered through my wife (usually complaining about her KMT-supporting father) or through foreign correspondents.
It's rare to hear a foreign correspondent bash the DPP quite so relentlessly. It was surprising to me.
“But now, if they eliminate it, they'd also get some loving, if they had eliminated it legislatively in recent years, they would have gotten a lot of loving from the Biden administration, because the Biden administration is not pro-death penalty.
So lost opportunity, really, however you analyze this, lost opportunity specifically for President Tsai and the DPP.”
From Taiwan This Week: The death penalty debated, Apr 25, 2024
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