They're all upset about President Trump's announcement that he would host the Philippines' controversial president, Rodrigo Duterte, in the White House.  According to this report in the New York Times, the human rights groups are wringing their hands, the State Department and the National Security Council are tearing their hair out, and the congressional Democrats are ruefully stroking their chins and trying to make political hay. In reality, Trump's move is an exceptionally bold and clever one, and strongly rooted in advancing U.S. interests.  Big time.  Here's what they don't get: The Philippines has elected Duterte, a wild-man populist, out of frustration with the status quo.  Whatever his merits – and cripes, he does pop off – he does represent the outcome of years of frustration from a population long silenced and held down by its soggily leftist Davos-style elites.  Trump can see through that...(Read Full Post)