I hadn’t read Dionne until Ramesh pointed out the column. Ugh. I wonder how E.J. would respond to the fact that the spirit of his criticism would apply to his sainted FDR in spades. FDR really did deceive the public on foreign questions time and again. He spoke eloquently about freedom even as he allied himself with the Soviet Union and inked the deal with the Saudis we are still living with today.

This isn’t to say that FDR was wrong for any of these things, but it is a problem to believe he was the greatest president of the 20th century while at the same time you condemn the current president for eerily similar behavior.