Trump Voters Are Not Isolationists

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Yet again, the Right-side of the Media Industrial Complex makes another enormous mistake if they think Trump voters are isolationists. Said Media Industrial Complex denizens are pompous, egotistical elites. Both sides. Every durn time. Just because we don’t want to run willy-nilly to put our children into a 20 year meat grinder doesn’t mean that we don’t recognize that there are evil regimes on the globe.

The teleprompter readers on the television started squealing about Trump voters not wanting another war on the morning of February 28 right after the bombing began. Meanwhile, I was singing “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran” by Vince Vance and the Valiants. I have a feeling old Triple Trumpers were singing along with me.

You may have noticed these teleprompter readers and Media Industrial Complex denizens too. How could you miss them? Writing in the Washington Examiner, Ira Stoll distills it for us:

The joint U.S.-Israel military operation against Iran has already been a “tremendous success,” as President Trump explained this week: “they have no navy, they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft equipment. It’s all been blown up. They have no radar. They have no telecommunications. And they have no leadership. It’s all gone.”

Trump didn’t say so out, but similarly and totally obliterated are whatever slim hopes the nforcclst-industrial complex might as well be at the bottom of the Gulf of Arabia along with the Iranian Navy, given how irrelevant and ineffective it has shown itself to be.

The gutless “isolationist forces” include Senator Lindsey Graham who loves long, longer, longest wars that he can participate in from an office. We cannot forget Scott McConnell:

One such character, Scott McConnell, wrote in a British magazine, the Spectator, under the headline, “I spent 25 years fighting neocons. Then Trump became one,” “I’m glued to the news coming out of Iran. I’m experiencing some depression, as one might, upon realizing that much of what one has worked on for 25 years has suddenly gone up in smoke, destroyed when Donald Trump discovered he was pretty much a neocon after all … one can’t help but acknowledge the American right really likes bombing foreign countries, despite what had seemed an inexorable advance of right-leaning realist and restraint-oriented young foreign policy staffers and intellectuals who grew up or served during the Iraq war, and despite Trump’s successful effort to present himself as the ‘peace candidate’ and my enthusiasm for his endeavor.”

“…one can’t help but acknowledge the American right really likes bombing foreign countries, despite what had seemed an inexorable advance of right-leaning realist and restraint-oriented young foreign policy staffers and intellectuals who grew up or served during the Iraq war”. Really Scott?

I believe Barack Obama bombed seven or eight countries with about 27,000 bombs. Is BO part of the American Right? I think not.

Speaking of bombing seven or eight countries, Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado:

Trump did not campaign as an isolationist. He campaigned against sending our children into a 20 year meat grinder. America first doesn’t mean America alone or allowing evil to fester.

Ira Stoll says it perfectly:

You can parse the nuances within the isolationist camp. Some of them hate Israel, some of them just want less defense spending, some of them have business interests abroad in unfree countries, some of them are seriously and sincerely scarred by poor outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan. At this point, it’s not even worth the bother. Just how thoroughly vanquished that side of the fight is was visible in a social media post recently from Trump, who posted “Rich Goldberg was GREAT on Mark Levin tonight. Two guys who really get it! Thank you both. President DJT.” The reference was to Rich Goldberg of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who appeared March 7 on Mark Levin’s Fox News program.

Goldberg’s comments do make clear one subtle yet significant difference between the current military action against Iran and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which is, as Goldberg put it, “we have an ally like Israel that is forward at a major threat to the United States that has the military hardware that we have provided over many years to ensure that they have the capability with our intelligence sharing level to go ahead and operationalize in this manner. I think we are seeing something for the history books playing out before our very eyes and it’s going to not just shape the future of the U.S.-Israel security alliance. I think it’s going to have to be replicated in other regions of the world where the United States and fellow democracies face big threats.”

This is what Trump voters voted against.

As the Mother and Aunt of three GWOT kids, I recognize that they volunteered. They didn’t volunteer for incompetent leadership or the isolationist forces to prolong conflicts for fun and profit. We Trump voters and military families want evil defeated quick, fast and in a hurry.

Sit and spin, Right side isolationists and spongy Leftists. Trump is not an isolationist, neither are Trump voters and you don’t want to understand that.

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