承前*1
Brian Klaas*2 “Dictators around the world will delight in Trump’s victory” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/18/dictators-world-donald-trump-victory-russia-drc
ドナルド・トランプの当選は、世界中の独裁者ども（権威主義体制）にとっては吉報、民主化のために奮闘する人々にとっては凶報ということになるだろうという論説。
少し切り抜いてみる；
４つの理由；
Donald Trump’s rise to the White House will now accelerate the decline of democracy, perhaps irreversibly. While his election is correctly seen as a unique threat to American democracy*3, the much more lasting victims of America’s vote will be those fighting around the world for a meaningful voice in their politics – from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Belarus, from Uzbekistan to Thailand. With Trump in the Oval Office, ordinary citizens living under despotism will find their already weak voices muted, their plight ignored.
We don’t know exactly what Trump’s foreign policy will entail. But we do know four crucial facts. First, the past 18 months in America represent an extremely effective advertisement to the world against democracy. Few people in other nations looked at that endless campaign and thought: “I wish we had that here!”Second, Trump’s signature foreign policy line of his campaign was that he would put “America First”, a slogan that has its roots in American Nazi sympathisers who favoured isolationism before Pearl Harbor*4.
Third, we know Trump isn’t that bothered by authoritarian rulers and their practices.
And finally, we know the west is splintered, more than ever since the cold war, on how it handles Russia.
トランプ的経済原理主義の弊害；
The combination of these facts is very bad news for those who relentlessly believe in, and tirelessly fight for, democracy in their respective societies. For democracy to spread, leaders and their citizens must believe it is worth adopting. At the end of the cold war, there was a surging belief that we were approaching “the end of history”, a moment when all countries would gravitate toward liberal democratic rule. Today that idea seems almost laughable. As a result of that lost faith in democracy as a concept, authoritarian regimes are now hiding behind the broken shards of western democracy as a pretext to justify their iron-fisted rule. In May, for example, a general in Thailand’s military junta told me: if Donald Trump is what democracy looks like, don’t sign us up for it. Too many people will buy into this line of thinking, and democracy’s retreat will accelerate accordingly.
トランプ自身の「権威主義」への親近性。サダム・フセインによるクルド人虐殺に対する態度など；
Worse, though, the west’s already checkered support for democracy is now likely to be replaced by a drastically pared-down diplomatic approach. Trump sees diplomacy as an economic deal; winners are those with trade surpluses, and losers are those with deficits. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of foreign policy, a misunderstanding that sees a long-term commitment to promoting democracy as a mere waste of money. As western funds to support democracy begin to decline, the rug will be pulled out from underneath those brave pro-democracy reformers who are counting on us in the dark authoritarian realms of the world.
Not only that, Trump is sending a clear authoritarian signal to the rest of the world. Last December he said of the worst chemical attack by a state on civilians in modern history, which left up to 10,000 Kurds dead*5: “Saddam Hussein throws a little gas, everyone goes crazy. ‘Oh he’s using gas!’”*6 When Trump normalises state atrocities or suggests that Putin is a normatively good leader simply because he is strong*7, that signal is not lost on the 100-plus countries that are stalled somewhere between dictatorship and democracy. Those leaders take their cue for what is acceptable – and what will elicit diplomatic consequences – from the White House. If they have been listening to Trump, despotic leaders will begin to believe that they can get away with quite a bit more brutality.
*1:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161109/1478709983 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161110/1478789303 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161111/1478828492 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161112/1478913484 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161112/1478918624 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20161116/1479312313
*2:http://brianpklaas.com/ See eg. http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/whosWho/Academic%20profiles/BrianKlaas.aspx
*3:See Ben Tarnoff “Donald Trump, Peter Thiel and the death of democracy” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/21/peter-thiel-republican-convention-speech
*4:See David Gordon “America First: the Anti-War Movement, Charles Lindbergh and the Second World War, 1940-1941” http://bobrowen.com/nymas/americafirst.html
*5:See “1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack” http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm
*6:See Ali Vitali “Donald Trump Praises Saddam Hussein's Approach to Terrorism ― Again” http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-praises-saddam-hussein-s-approach-terrorism-again-n604411
*7:See Jonathan Freedland “Trump doesn’t have to be Putin’s agent. It’s bad enough that he is a fan” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/27/trump-putin-agent-fan-president-russia
