True: service members and their service — combat or otherwise — should not be fetishized especially when it comes to suitability for elected office. Not true: combat service “tends to turn men into broken, hateful people and helps make things like Trumpism happen.”
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...