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The Trump Administration's Efforts to Redefine Human Rights Echoes Those of the Reagan Administration
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The Trump administration will not be remembered for its commitment to human rights, but it did oversee an attempt to dramatically redefine the U.S. government’s conceptualization of human rights. In doing so it followed the path of several previous administrations, including the Reagan administration, which formulated a narrow definition to facilitate a so-called conservative human rights policy in the 1980s.
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The Trump Administration's Efforts to Redefine Human Rights Echoes Those of the Reagan Administration