Nicholas Kristof -In
my 35 years at the @nytimes, I’ve covered lots of authoritarians around
the world. Many have lashed out at me or The Times, although rarely
using Stalinist language like this. I’ve
been threatened with deportation, arrest, execution. But in the end
we’ve outlasted them, and the latest such leader—the genocidal Omar
Bashir of Sudan—was just ousted and imprisoned this month. Sure, we make
mistakes. Of course we welcome criticism. But venomous denunciations of
“enemies of the people” have no place in a democracy, and in my
experience authoritarians who ride the back of a tiger end up inside. We
are better than this.
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