280) Let's be up-front about the cultural roots of MAGA. And then fix them.
Who is Trump’s base? The data is already in. WHITE MEN WITHOUT COLLEGE DEGREES are Trump’s base….
279) The cost of feeding the dogs of war (and the utter imbecility of the decision-makers behind it)
Imagine that you wanted to personally fund a $10 billion [war], and you make, say, $80,000 per year. You would have needed to start working ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO, about 60,000 years BEFORE stone-tool-using Homo sapiens were interbreeding with Neanderthals, and you would have had to save every single penny.