Comment by Capricorn2481
11 hours ago
> I think blaming the American public for these wars is a deflection
Where did I do that? There's no one to vote for that doesn't wage war.
But to say voting for Trump was voting for less war is plain ridiculous. You'd have to ignore his entire career. He is famously fickle, is not shy about lying, and abandons friends at the soonest opportunity. A rational person hearing him say "I will end the Ukraine war on day 1" would understand he's saying whatever he thinks sounds good.
I consider the marginal voter to be rather dim, credulous, and uninformed irrational actors.
Politics in a universal suffrage democracy is the art of idiot whispering and Trump is a master of this art. I do believe that most of his voters genuinely thought they were voting for less war.