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'Wow': Observers horrified by 'scary' Trump brag showing he's following 'Putin's playbook'
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Liberals have been eager for regime change in Iran for as long as their conservative peers.
Bombing Tehran is one of the few things Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can agree on.
I'm using the typical definition of the term liberal, not the online leftist version, though. I know what you are going for, but probably about 5% of the population even grasps the way the online leftists talk about liberals ("shitlibs") and so on.
We are talking about a population that hears the beginning part of "Libertarian" and assumes that means the equivalent to liberal. Same thing when it comes to neoliberal policies. I bet the number of Americans that understand what neoliberal entails is vanishingly small.
Hillary does not seem all that liberal to me in any case, despite what the far right claims about people like her and her husband and Biden and Obama and Kamala...
The difference though is liberals never went to war with Iran for the regime change and that’s a big one.
Yeah, they went to war with Libya for it instead
Maybe not Iran. Every US president in recent history has started or escalated bullshit wars for regime change.
I like how you say "or escalated" to "both sides" it and avoid admitting Republicans started all the wars.