Public service announcement: stop voting for presidents who start wars. Here's the pattern since Johnson in 1964: - Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the Vietnam War

Public service announcement: stop voting for presidents who start wars. Here's the pattern since Johnson in 1964: - Lyndon B. Johnson escalated the Vietnam War throughout 1964 and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was passed just before his re-election in November 1964. There's a book, Dereliction of Duty, about how Johnson did this for the popularity it would earn him. - Nixon didn't start any wars and he was re-elected. - Jimmy Carter didn't start any wars, and the Iran hostage crisis had the opposite affect: it made him appear weak. He only served one term. - Ronald Reagan got involved in Grenada and Lebanon in 1983. Both conflicts were relatively small and the U.S. withdrew pretty soon afterwards. His re-election was in November 1984. - Bush Sr. started the Gulf War in January 1991. His re-election would have been in November 1992. - Clinton got heavily involved in Bosnia in 1995. His re-election would have been in November 1996. - Bush Jr. started the Iraq War in 2003. His re-election was in November 2004. - Obama started the Libyan War in 2011. His re-election would have been in November 2012. - Trump didn't start any wars. He wasn't re-elected, but we can be sure that he didn't start any wars to increase his popularity, like every other two-term president since 1964 except Nixon.