[farmer18th]

"Here is an unhappy fact: Certain authoritarians and tyrants whose leadership is illegitimate and unjust have functioned in history as--ugly imagery coming--garbage-can lids on their societies. They keep freedom from entering, it is true. But when they are removed, the garbage--the freelance terrorists, the grievance merchants, the ethnic nationalists--pops out all over. Yes, freedom is good and to be strived for. But cleaning up the garbage is not pretty. And it sometimes leaves the neighborhood in an even bigger mess than it had been."

Noonan prefers "tidy" tyranny.

[syriacus]

Noonan prefers "tidy" tyranny.

Great way to put it.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Noonan prefers "tidy" tyranny.

A foreign policy so 20th Century. She'd rather sweep the dust under rug just to pretend it doesn't even exists. She loves to boast she clings to Reagan's philosophies, but "tidy tyranny" was not one of Ronaldus Maximus' philosophies of dealing with evil.