A reckless con man as president: LA Times burns Trump to the ground in brutal editorial

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5. THIS passage speaks directly to our situation (emphasis added):

It took many years for the self-criticism to bear fruit, but without it the followers of Allende could never have built a coalition with the Christian Democrats, many of whose members were fierce opponents of the revolution’s radical measures. They had at first thoughtlessly welcomed the coup. Our coalition beat Pinochet in a 1988 plebiscite and then voted into office a center-left president two years later.