One way it's different: Donald Trump has openly discussed a desire to deploy nuclear weapons. He has repeatedly wondered why we make them "if we can't use them"

One way it's different: Donald Trump has openly discussed a desire to deploy nuclear weapons. He has repeatedly wondered why we make them "if we can't use them", aloud, to the press. The pattern is the same (war-mongering for profit), but there aren't any moral circuit breakers this time around – we elected an amoral serial liar. The potential consequences are now orders of magnitude higher than the Iraq travesty: we're looking at millions dead in Tehran and potentially irreversible changes to the biosphere. Trump infamously asked "what have you got to lose?" to a predominately African American and Hispanic audience [1] while campaigning. The answer: still quite a lot. 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/22/donald-trump-to-african-american-and-hispanic-voters-what-do-you-have-to-lose/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08...