1. On Labor Day Trump channelled his inner Gandhi and denounced "top people in the Pentagon" who "want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else, stay happy.”
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4. Trump's use of anti-war rhetoric speaks to the fact that there is a broad swath of the USA population that is in fact tired of the Forever Wars, an audience that includes many Republicans as well as marginal swing voters.
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5. Trump is a con-man, but con-men often flourish when they can offer services or products that more reputable merchants won't provide. Trump has gotten some milage out of his ridiculous anti-war claims due to establishment ceding of ground. More here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-fake-anti-war/ …
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War is peace
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First prez to not start a war in a generation, broker historic peace deals, reduce troop levels, and you’re talking about stylin himself Perhaps you may be confusing the map with the territory
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The whole “not start a war thing” kind of ignores that he nearly started several, eg, n . Korea, Iran, etc, and then claimed success when war was “averted.” We don’t applaud arsonists when they douse gas but refuse to light the match.
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