Opinion | Trump and Netanyahu Steer Toward an Ugly World, Together (Gift Article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/trump-netanyahu-united-states-israel-autocracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.-RsK.m6PHeb8T7RZL&smid=re-nytopinion

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  1. The Times Opinion columnist Thomas Friedman writes about Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu:

    >Each is a wannabe autocrat, each is working to undermine the rule of law and so-called elites in his respective country, each is seeking to crush what he calls a “deep state” of government professionals. Each is steering his nation away from its once universal aspiration to be a “light unto the nations” toward a narrow, brutish might-equals-right ethnonationalism that is ready to mainstream ethnic cleansing. Each treats his political opposition not as legitimate but as enemies within, and each has filled his cabinet with incompetent hacks, deliberately chosen for loyalty to him instead of the laws of their lands.

    >Each is driving his country away from its democratic traditional allies. Each asserts territorial expansion as a divine right — “From the Gulf of America to Greenland” and “From the West Bank to Gaza.”

    Read the full column [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/trump-netanyahu-united-states-israel-autocracy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.-RsK.m6PHeb8T7RZL&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

  2. It feels like a sin to let Orban out of the mix. He’s always been a snake in the grass.

  3. The NY Times has gotten stupider and stupider lately. I cancelled my subscription after you guys posted that false story claiming Israel bombed a hospital when it was actually Hamas. Thomas Friedman has been wrong about almost everything.

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