⟳ Репост от Sunny Moraine
I've always been against fetishizing veterans over public service writ large, but this is such a broad, ignorant statement. Nearly 16M vets, millions of combat vets but sure they're why Trumpism happened vs 94% of the population turning a blind eye to the forever wars bc they didn't have to care..
Rick PerlsteinA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...