The Great Realignment

Since Reagan, the GOP had been the party that supported a strong military. Reagan stood against the USSR, pushing up the cost of the arms race to defeat communism. What’s known as the military-industrial complex benefited from this stance. George Bush continued this policy, going to war with Iraq in the early 1990s. W. picked up the mantle despite there being no more cold war to win. His response to 9/11 was regrettable in hindsight. The Bush family stamped the GOP as the party of war.

The Democrats, being carefully contrarian with Reagan, had an anti-war minority in their ranks. Most Democrats took that view, but they saw Reagan’s policies as popular and held their fire. It was during the Bush years they became fully anti-war again. No matter the reason, they began protesting war, their voters coming against all things military. This became their policy.

Look at the parties today. The Democrats have now become the party of endless war. Democrats support the military-industrial complex. Their foreign policies reignited the Ukraine war, and they seem to want it perpetually. They insist on giving this war billions upon billions. They cannot stop wearing Ukraine lapel pins, nor giving Ukraine’s corrupt dictator his monthly fix. Oddly there are no Democrat anti-war rallies about Ukraine. Makeover complete.

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