As Hillary Clinton puts together what she hopes will be a winning coalition in November, many progressives remain wary — but she has the war hawks firmly behind her. “I would say all Republican foreign policy professionals are anti-Trump,” leading neoconservative Robert Kagan told a group gathered around him, groupie-style, at a “foreign policy professionals for Hillary” fundraiser I attended last week.
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The Prodigal Son-in-Law: Jared Kushner And The Rise Of The Neo-Cons In The Trump Admin
How Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner May Have Influenced Trump's Sudden Reversal On US Policy Towards Syria. Taken at face value, the premise that the President bombed a sovereign nation because his daughter had an emotional reactions to photos of an unconfirmed tragedy seem patently absurd. However, the base assertion that Ivanka convinced her father to attack is likely true due to the strong connections she and her husband Jared Kushner share with a foreign government that has consistently supported regime change in Syria – Israel.
David Wurmser, Key Iraq War Architect, Advising Trump on Iran
David Wurmser was a longtime advocate of war with Iraq in the
Bush administration. Eventually, he got what he wanted, and it was a
total disaster. Now, Wurmser again has the ear of a president — this
time, Donald Trump — and his sights are set firmly on Iran.
Why far-right protesters are wearing Hawaiian print
Emerging from a hack joke trope and in far-right memes in racist and homophobic corners of the Internet, armed extremists wearing Hawaiian or "Aloha" print shirts at protests across the US are signalling support for a "second Civil War" over stay-at-home orders and perceived threats to the Second Amendment.