Replies to post #316590 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[arizona1]

You support trump. Nuff said.

[fuagf]

shermann7, Why come here with such an antagonistic attitude. You have moved from being in support of a Dem candidate
(even though Tulsi was favored in a damn Drudge poll of his warped conservative people) to a series of posts which
would make any simply trolling here proud. And i don't think that's what you originally intended to be doing.

"So ... You support a party that killed a whole lot of folks."

As far as your war party goes. times and circumstances change.

This may help.

This historian spent 10 years researching wartime presidents. Trump scares him the most.

Michael Beschloss says President Donald Trump is “in a category of his own” among America’s commanders in chief.

By Alex [e-mail]@vox.com Updated Dec 31, 2018, 12:24pm EST


President Abraham Lincoln and President Donald Trump. Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty
Images; Saul LOeb/AFP/Getty Images

“All wartime presidents have preserved our democracy largely through self-restraint, and I don’t see any of that in President Trump.”

That’s historian Michael Beschloss’s stunning observation. For his new book Presidents of War, he spent a decade looking at America’s wartime commanders in chief — how they handled the decision to send US troops into combat, how they navigated the politics surrounding war, and how the war changed them personally.

[...]

Alex Ward

Having studied all the wartime presidents, where does President Trump fit in?

Michael Beschloss

He’s in a category of his own. Remember what I was saying before about how the wartime presidents had empathy? I have yet to see a big piece of evidence that Trump has very much empathy at all, and that makes me very anxious. I think it’s essential in a president, and it’s really essential in a war president.

One thing that makes great war presidents is they know history. If you study history, you understand democracy, and you love democracy. If you don’t know about American history, you’re not going to realize that democracy is extremely perishable. All wartime presidents have preserved our democracy largely through self-restraint, and I don’t see any of that in Trump.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/5/18056156/trump-michael-beschloss-presidents-of-war-book-interview

If you're here to push barrows and piss people off, ok, you have that right unless you blow it.

Better if you were here to simply contribute to positive contributions even if others don't always agree with you.

[blackhawks]

We are looking at about 20 Million folks whom have died due to Dem Party Leadership...

Responsible, ahistorical, childish statement.

Let's change the thread. Most of America's recessions began during GOP presidencies. Including, but not limited to, the Great Depression and the Great Recession.

Terrible economic leaderhip