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First: hilarious. Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them. It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

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TRUMP: I WOULD HAVE WON VIETNAM VERY QUICKLY

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When you are as dumb as rock, every problem looks like something that can be bashed into submission. Or some wittier version of hammer and nail analogy. I am not paid to be good at coming up with those.

Older than Trump—as a kid in the Eighties it was very common to hear conservatives saying we should have nuked Vietnam & then Iran after the Hostage Crisis, “turned Tehran into a parking lot” was the usual phrase, & Google NGRAM viewer shows “bomb them back to the Stone Age” to the Sixties

Yep usually, “If Nixon had beaten Kennedy he’d have done Linebacker II in 1965 and the Nork’s would have sued for peace! Except that the Christmas Bombing was about trying to give cover for a pull out and it didn’t end the war…

Anyone get the sense lately that people are paying less attention to El Presidenté? It would be quite delightful to see him sidelined by his own lack of filter.