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

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92. There's no evidence anything actually happened: he flew off to Singapore, with essentially

no preparation, signed a meaningless document for a photo-op, made his usual off-script remarks, and rushed back before his limited attention-span was utterly exhausted

International observers will suspect that the White House is a chaotic mess, that the US has no reliable analysis, and that US commitments will flutter unpredictably with the wind, especially after his bizarre performance in Canada immediately prior

Perhaps it improves US-NK relations, if by US-NK relations we mean nothing more than Trump-Kim relations, but viewed in recent immigration context, the real take-away message may simply be a further step back from US human rights postures -- and that damages US standing in the world, while also weakening US labor against goods manufactured under repressive conditions. It's hard to read that as a defeat of the thuggish interests that people like Bolton serve