For decades, Washington was the last-resort option for dissidents from around the world: if peaceful protest was no longer possible in their own countries, or if they had been forced into exile, they could at least protest at their embassy in the United States. But the regime in America had, evidently, changed. Now, in November 2019, a smiling Trump stood next to Erdoğan, who had jailed several thousand dissidents and more than a hundred journalists, and said he was “a big fan” of the Turkish president. A month earlier, Trump had pulled almost all U.S. troops out of Syria, opening the way for
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