C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
War is the deadliest distraction in the authoritarian’s playbook…
‘In the modern era, it was probably George W. Bush who first said it out loud and then acted on it: When you’re unpopular and losing politically, just start a little war that’s easily winnable and you’ll be back on top.
As he told his biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, in 1999 about his plans for an Iraq war as a strategy to get himself re-elected in 2004:
One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of (Kuwait) and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade Iraq, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency.
It worked for Bush, although history hasn’t been kind to him as a result. Trump’s second presidency, meanwhile, has been an unmitigated disaster, both in real terms and politically as his approval ratings have slipped so far underwater they’re in late-years Nixon territory:
— Inflation is up and the tariffs aren’t bringing jobs home
— Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires bill is in trouble
— The GOP war on our schools and libraries is creating a huge backlash
— Women are dying — and furious — because of Red state abortion bans
— Armed thugs are kidnapping people off the streets without warrants or due process
— Those same immigration raids are causing food to rot in our fields
— Trump’s destruction of USAID has already killed an estimated 300,000 poor children and handed Africa and parts of Asia to Putin and Xi
— Despite Musk’s claims, the Epstein files are still hidden
— Nobody except billionaires wants Trump to sell off our public lands
— The housing crisis is worsening
— Trump’s cuts to Social Security and Medicare are creating havoc for people trying to sign up
— Putin has made a fool of Trump as he continues his murderous campaign against Ukraine
— Musk now knows every penny you’ve ever earned and every drug you’ve ever taken
— Republicans are on a national purge of voter rolls in Blue cities in Red states
— Between 5 and 10 million people showed up to protest Trump’s fascist policies
So, why not follow Bush’s advice and launch a “little war”? It worked for Reagan with Grenada and Bush with Iraq: What could possibly go wrong?’
hartmannreport.com
Yet another Republican president deflecting from his failed, unpopular administration, yet another illegal, unwarranted Republican war.
‘In the modern era, it was probably George W. Bush who first said it out loud and then acted on it: When you’re unpopular and losing politically, just start a little war that’s easily winnable and you’ll be back on top.
As he told his biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, in 1999 about his plans for an Iraq war as a strategy to get himself re-elected in 2004:
One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of (Kuwait) and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade Iraq, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency.
It worked for Bush, although history hasn’t been kind to him as a result. Trump’s second presidency, meanwhile, has been an unmitigated disaster, both in real terms and politically as his approval ratings have slipped so far underwater they’re in late-years Nixon territory:
— Inflation is up and the tariffs aren’t bringing jobs home
— Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires bill is in trouble
— The GOP war on our schools and libraries is creating a huge backlash
— Women are dying — and furious — because of Red state abortion bans
— Armed thugs are kidnapping people off the streets without warrants or due process
— Those same immigration raids are causing food to rot in our fields
— Trump’s destruction of USAID has already killed an estimated 300,000 poor children and handed Africa and parts of Asia to Putin and Xi
— Despite Musk’s claims, the Epstein files are still hidden
— Nobody except billionaires wants Trump to sell off our public lands
— The housing crisis is worsening
— Trump’s cuts to Social Security and Medicare are creating havoc for people trying to sign up
— Putin has made a fool of Trump as he continues his murderous campaign against Ukraine
— Musk now knows every penny you’ve ever earned and every drug you’ve ever taken
— Republicans are on a national purge of voter rolls in Blue cities in Red states
— Between 5 and 10 million people showed up to protest Trump’s fascist policies
So, why not follow Bush’s advice and launch a “little war”? It worked for Reagan with Grenada and Bush with Iraq: What could possibly go wrong?’
Trump’s Iran War Fever: A Deadly Cure for His Political Collapse?
War is the deadliest distraction in the authoritarian’s playbook…
Yet another Republican president deflecting from his failed, unpopular administration, yet another illegal, unwarranted Republican war.
