I said it during the campaign, and it’s proven out during his presidency. Trump was never really about pulling us back. He was never really about fighting fewer wars, or shrinking the military, or empire, etc. etc.
He bamboozled his supporters, and they weren’t listening when he also talked about fighting wars to win, instead of being “PC” about it. And he constantly talked about making the military great again, and radically expanding our nuclear program.
As president, he’s supported massive increases in military spending, and still wants a radically bigger nuclear program. He’s taken us to the brink of nuclear war with North Korea, rattled his saber repeatedly at Iran, just recently said he supports Israel’s move to Jerusalem as their capital, which has the Arab Street aflame. He’s also embraced autocrats all over the globe, embraced Duterte in the Philippines and the Arab dictators. There’s not an antiwar bone in his body or in his policies, and the GOP is right there with him.
To me, anyone who preferred Trump over Clinton over fears of the latter’s hawkishness was fooling themselves. Trump is far more hawkish and has surrounded himself with more hawkish advisers and cabinet. Too many people also saw Trump’s bromance with Putin as a sign of reduced hostilities in the world, while forgetting all the other nations he’s promised to go after. They’ve also dismissed the reason for Trump’s embrace of Russia. He’s up to his eyeballs in debt with the Russians, not to mention their help in the election. As in, he’s not going easy on Russia because his overall philosophy is tempered, measured and careful on matters of war. It’s because he’s fully compromised. His language is far too bellicose overall to think otherwise.
He and the Republicans are far more dangerous to peace and the planet than the Dems. The latter party sucks. But they’re just not as bad as the former. They’re just not as dangerous — Deep State or not. IMO, leftists should be aligned against Trump and the GOP even more so than against Clinton and the Dems. I see zero reasons for defending Trump, on anything.
