Catherine Morris<p>For me, this sentence has rhyming echoes of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PolPot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PolPot</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YearZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YearZero</span></a> in 1974. Listen to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElizabethBecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethBecker</span></a>, who wrote about her 1978 visit to Cambodia under the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KhmerRouge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KhmerRouge</span></a> with two other writers. Becker now says that in some ways Washington DC under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> resembles <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhnomPenh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhnomPenh</span></a> under Pol Pot.” <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/goldkorn/p/pol-pots-cambodia-musk-and-trumps?r=7p2cc&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/goldkorn</span><span class="invisible">/p/pol-pots-cambodia-musk-and-trumps?r=7p2cc&utm_medium=ios</span></a>.</p><p>Cambodia still suffers the effects of the terrible 4 years under Pol Pot. Cambodia is now a sham democracy with no independent judiciary, no free media. Dissenters are jailed.</p>