...you mentioned chanting support for Ho Chi Minh in 1968 as something that might shock modern sensibility, since he was a repressive autocrat when in power.
Thing is, he didn't strike Boomers as worse than the ones our nations supported, like Marcos or Pinochet.
If your only choice is between autocrats, I'm back to picking the "power-to-the-people" ones, not the "400 families" autocrats.
@RoyBrander Aha, if I even tried unpacking the particularities of which brutal despots became American allies and which became cartoonish villains in the U.S. mass media, I would have had no chance of making word count.
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