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There hasn't been a President who has served in any war fought later than 1945. Every Presidential candidate the last 9 elections to present himself as a combat veteran has lost, and usually seen themselves smeared as traitors, liars and/or unstable burnouts by the forces that became Trumpism.
Rick PerlsteinA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...