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Notably the architects, of the foreign policy blunders of the Bush Administration such as Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan (Project for a New American
by justinzollars 5y ago
Notably the architects, of the foreign policy blunders of the Bush Administration such as Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan (Project for a New American Century) have gravitated toward the left and its foreign policy. You'd have to be 40 years old to understand the significance of these players and one advantage of being a politician - is that there is a new generation that forgets. These players are anti-trump Hero's in today's media, but they were proponents of brutal wars 20 years ago.
- selfportrait 5y ago
- malfist 5y agoDick Cheney is now a leftist progressive? Bill Kristol is now a leftist progressive? Are you sure about that? Being anti-trump doesn't make one a leftist progressive.
- justinzollars 5y agoI didn't use the word progressive.
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- sitkack 5y agoApparently anything that doesn't support Trump is left.
- soco 5y agoNitpicking: whenever I see some US personality labeled as "leftist" I must remember that we still live in a post-truth society where ideology is stronger than wikipedia. Translation: 90% of what is labeled "left" in the US would be by definition centre-right. Notice I left out 10% where "leftists" probably deserve their label, but hey let's not murk our clean-cut ideologies (and their scare-words) with too much exactitude...