Donald Trump Has Become Dick Cheney
Trump wants to be Ronald Reagan, but instead with his Venezuela folly, he is Dick Cheney
In November 2019, The New York Times wrote a fawning piece about how Trump’s opposition to endless wars was appealing to American veterans.
The shifting attitudes of so many who served in the wars help explain why Mr. Trump has support among veterans as he brings troops home and has resisted military action against other nations.
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Veterans have supported Mr. Trump more than the general population. About 56 percent of veterans said they approved of the job he was doing as president, compared with 42 percent of the population overall, according to a poll by The Associated Press last year, consistent with other poll findings. Veterans like Mr. Trump’s vow to support their care and bolster military spending, and in some cases they agree with his “America First” foreign policy calling for a smaller footprint for United States forces abroad.
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The New York Times sucking up to Trump is nothing new, but this NYT piece has also aged very poorly, given that Donald Trump has now invaded Venezuela and has adopted the position that using the military to enact illegal regime change in the Western Hemisphere is acceptable foreign policy.
Listening to the Trump administration attempting to defend their new love of neo-con regime change, including Trump bringing back that old chestnut from the Iraq invasion that the oil will pay the cost for the nation building, brought back memories of another failed Republican administration.
It was like America was back in the early 2000s when another failed attempt at regime change was undertaken. This flashback was not lost on Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT).
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