which other elected leader of a western-style country has ended any kind of surveillance? realpolitik is far more messier than lofty moralism, the US never had

which other elected leader of a western-style country has ended any kind of surveillance? realpolitik is far more messier than lofty moralism, the US never had a clean slate, ever. just like any other country. and for the posters bitching about the sham democracy in the US - right, but still people are dying in other countries to achieve just of a fraction of the freedom, safety and liberty present in the USofA. if elections changed anything they would be banned, right? which they ARE, in a lot of places on earth. as long as a president here is limited to two terms the systems works. erdogan, putin, see for other places where this core principle gets violated and what it does to the system.