The Moral Mob and the Human Rights Industrial Complex | Opinion

By Joel Finkelstein, Shawn Chenoweth, and Judea PearlShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.As American forces engage Iran, a question worth asking in every situation room is going unanswered: How did a meaningful share of the American public come to view the regime we are fighting more favorably than our own country on human rights? Recent polling finds that Democratic voters under 50 view Iran and Israel unfavorably by nearly identical margins, and that almost three in 10 younger Democrats view China favorably.The answer is not spontaneous.

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