Just as, a decade ago, the West objected to the efforts of Turkey’s entrenched secular elite to rob Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s mildly Islamist AKP party of its democratic victory, it needs to speak clearly today in defense of Thai democracy. The opposition’s claim that it is acting in the interests of the world’s democracies needs to be rebutted.
正如十年前西方拒绝土耳其老牌精英推翻埃尔多安温和派AKP党的民主胜利的图谋，如今西方也需要旗帜鲜明地捍卫泰国民主。必须剥去反对派所宣称的他们是在为全世界民主需要而奋斗的说法的画皮。