Contempt
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A fan of strongman leaders who “get it done,” Trump admires diktats and brazen
contempt
for legal processes.
It is this combination of self-interest and
contempt
for law that makes Trump’s revocation of the Brennan’s security clearance so troubling.
Theirs is a nationalist international – a classic creature of a deflationary period – united by
contempt
for liberal democracy and the ability to mobilize those who would crush it.
Because Havel did not go through the usual party schools of political training, he often felt that he need not respect the rules of the political game, and he often showed
contempt
for the compromises and moral short cuts practiced by politicians.
And I would continue to treat them with contempt, as I have done for 20 years, were I not persuaded that with them the red line – or red-brown line – is being crossed.
A typical example of the danger of lingering Marxist values is the production fetishism and
contempt
for trade as “speculation”.
The “America first” approach that Trump advocates comprises disdain for NATO,
contempt
for the European Union, and mockery of Germany’s leadership role in Europe.
Belfort, once again selling the elixir of success after a brief stint in prison, professes to feel shame for his behavior; but I suspect that deep down his
contempt
for those he swindled outweighs any sense of remorse.
But while these governments have certainly shown
contempt
for EU institutions, while ignoring the recommendations of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, they are too clever to defy EU rules outright.
China, by contrast, is governed by a political class that holds democracy in
contempt.
Gilani had been convicted weeks earlier of
contempt
of court, after he refused to comply with a court order directing him to write to Swiss authorities and demand that they reopen a money-laundering investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari that had been launched in the mid-1990’s.
Since neither Gilani nor the government appealed the Supreme Court’s judgment in the
contempt
case, “the conviction has attained finality,” the court wrote.
The
contempt
conviction in May left the legislature and the government’s executive branch with very little room for maneuver.
At the very least, the EU should apply the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty that allow it to suspend some of the rights of a country that is breaking its rules and showing
contempt
for its standards and values.
This netherworld, patrolled and nourished by criminals who operate a vast black-market economy, has bred, in Mumbai, a community that has utter
contempt
for the state, because it knows that its survival depends on corrupting the police.
Yet, despite their shared
contempt
for expressions of the popular will, China’s President Xi Jinping and Putin struggled, during Putin’s two-day visit to Shanghai, to agree on a new gas deal that the Kremlin desperately needs.
Xi’s self-confidence reflected not only the Chinese leadership’s
contempt
for Putin’s mismanagement of the Russian economy, but also the fact that China’s energy worries have lessened considerably of late.
Then there is the worship of money and the
contempt
for others that accompanies it.
No such universal aspiration can be found in Nazism, which, even on its face, was not concerned about what was good for all, but about what was good for one supposed racial group, and which was clearly motivated by hatred and
contempt
for other ethnic groups.
Does this kind of ignorance and
contempt
for the Jewish people persist among Iran’s current leadership, coloring their approach to Israel?
North Korea’s leaders have a history of aggressiveness, a demonstrated
contempt
for their people, and a record of selling just about anything (from drugs and counterfeit dollars to missile parts) to earn hard currency.
Clearly, Machiavelli was correct: for a political leader, the people’s
contempt
is worse than their hatred.
That concern has been exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s recent imposition of tariffs and expressions of
contempt
for multilateral institutions.
After all, the one thing today’s autocrats have in common with their totalitarian predecessors is
contempt
for the rule of law, both domestically and internationally.
Al-Shabaab justifies its brutal behavior with a deeply twisted ideology that combines a crude distortion of Islam with a Khmer Rouge-style embrace of radical agrarian-based autarky and murderous
contempt
for those with formal education.
And yet, despite the Assad regime’s
contempt
for humanitarian norms, the UN still must obtain its permission to operate in rebel-controlled areas.
In such an atmosphere of
contempt
for opposition, corruption grows and festers.
Likewise, open
contempt
of “money-hungry” businesspeople and competition is expressed more often in France than in America.
Lamont found that people in both Paris and Clermont-Ferrand tended to express
contempt
for “money-grubbing.”
Trump’s
contempt
for the law extends beyond the US.
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