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Do pundits get a bonus for being wrong?
And the (not so) funny thing is, it sounded just as ridiculous at the time. He’d already said he wanted to go into ISIS-controlled parts of Iraq and take the oil. He has a long history of saber-rattling when it comes to the Middle East.
Of all Trump’s cons, his “non-interventionist mindset” was pushed a lot harder by the anti-Hillary left than by the candidate himself. And they had to ignore a lot of bluster to sell it.
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Privilege is thinking a non-trivial amount of loyal Fox viewers would vote for a Democrat if only we’d hold more town halls there.
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