Wright leaves out McFaul's key sentence, "Realism is an ideology that produced millions of deaths & horrific repression over the centuries." his version of "realists" before he trashes modern "progressive idealists", especially Biden appointees), he's off to a bad start. Note, the whole of McFaul's tweet:In the debate about the future Biden foreign policy Im seeing people self-identify as "progressive realists." Does "progressive realism" now mean keeping dictatorships and caretaker colonialists in place, the old patronizing infantilist recipe? Yet fixing your own mistakes doesn't buy so much praise from some - even though it's an important part of "realism".