by Jack Hunter at Based Politics
On February 15, 2003, the largest anti-war protest in history took place around the world in opposition to the United States’ looming invasion of Iraq.
For the American Left and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party at the time, the good guys in that divide were the protesters—or, really, anyone who opposed what would end up being arguably the worst foreign policy mistake in U.S. history. The bad guys were the federal government, headed by then-President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and the hawkish neoconservatives in their cabinet and media who were eagerly concocting this disaster.
“Bush lied, people died!” the Left exclaimed then. Former President Donald Trump would later express a version of this sentiment, at a time when even many Republican voters began to question the wisdom of the Iraq War many once supported.
The once-disgraced neocons should be eternally grateful Trump went after them in the way he did.
As Trump repeatedly blasted Bush and the Iraq War—and by proxy, its neoconservative architects—Democrats increasingly found common cause with ‘Never Trump’ neoconservative Republicans over the last six years. Many of these Bush-era relics would end up backing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Others wound up as regular guests and even hosts on left-leaning cable outlets MSNBC and CNN, and have now even become quite cozy with the Biden administration…
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