Why Can't Democrats Give Trump Credit on North Korea?

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47. I don't care what he identifies as, he was a vocal supporter of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq

and his assessment worked out real well on that one.

As for his thesis in this OP impling that the Democrats should not say the Korean summit was a failure, perhaps he should be a little more objective and realize while some of the critique is from the Democrats, most of that of that criticism is coming from republicans in the Senate, independent foreign policy experts, along with our allies, and other independent sources.

By all indications the U.S. took our ally, South Korea by surprise by canceling the scheduled military exericises with them, did not receive anything in return, and cut off the press when they asked the reasonable question if they will have the means to inspect the dismantling of the nuclear weapons. Instead of responding with something to the effect, "the discussions hadn't gotten that far", this administration took the question as an insult, became defense, and said it was an impertinent question.

If Beinart wants to characterize that as a success, then I suggest his judgement is severly lacking