That said, Mr. Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the far more powerful cleric who rules Iran, have repeatedly predicted that Israel will cease to exist and openly support militant groups that are pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state.
He came under suspicion because he openly supported causes that he believed sacred to freedom and literature.
The Republicans say the new Kenyan constitution would make it easier for women to get an abortion (a claim that constitutional scholars dispute) and that the embassy, by giving grants to Kenyan groups that openly support the constitution, has violated federal provisions prohibiting American diplomats from lobbying for or against abortion.
It is as though we are in the middle of a crumb collecting battle that comes from our indulgence in sites that openly support and advocate such shady dealings.
And there will always be businesses run by religious conservatives, including Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A, that openly support regressive policy whatever the cost.
Should this conversation not take place, it is time to officially declare that the U.S. openly supports a policy that most nations find objectionable.
Bolsonaro, too, has energized small, fringe movements that openly support the return of Brazil's military dictatorship, and he has appealed to segments of Brazil's middle and upper classes who believe they've lost out to the poor.
More than 60,000 people have already signed -- many more than the number who are openly supporting a petition that calls for him to be put on trial.
Iranians with reformist sympathies even began advising Americans to stop openly supporting them, lest that open them to attack as pawns of America.
And 74 percent think the U.S. government should not directly intervene in the post-election crisis, with one out of four feeling that Washington should openly support the demonstrators who are protesting the election results.
