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  • How the “Soft” Dictatorship of Lee Kuan Yew Became a Template for the American Right

    08/02/2022 7:57:57 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 43 replies
    Mother Jones ^ | September+October 2022 Issue | Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
    In a 2021 interview with the Stanford Review, Blake Masters was asked for a historical figure he admired. He chose two. The first was George Washington, possibly the best-known military general, slave owner, and president in American history. “I don’t think people realize how much of a boss this guy was,” Masters explained. The second was Lee Kuan Yew. LKY, as he’s often called, was Singapore’s prime minister from 1959 to 1990 and oversaw its economic miracle. He turned the former British colony into a go-go free market paradise. As it grew, Singapore instituted a far-ranging welfare state. The government...