Gradually, Trump is losing even conservative vets.
I'm a Vietnam vet and a longtime member of the American Legion. I joined not long after being discharged from Walter Reed and my ensuing separation from the US Army. I joined because at the time there was no one else I could talk to that had the first fucking idea of what I was talking about. But I was most definitely a member of a minute progressive minority - at my home post and nationally. Hell, at the time, Richard Nixon had a 95% approval rating among Legionnaires. I had been wounded in combat and decorated for valor, so I was not dismissed outright, but my opinions were ... shall we say ... tolerated.
But attitudes are shifting. Trump's desecration of Arlington National Cemetery by using it as a campaign photo op, his gutting of the VA and slashing of veteran's benefits, his cavalier appointment of political toadies to oversee the lives of men and women who lay it on the line every day, and the contempt he has expressed both verbally and by his actions for those who have been wounded, captured, or otherwise have sacrificed for this country, have combined to change the game .
This week I wrote a letter to the White House and the DoD demanding that Pete Hegseth be removed as SecDef for malfeasance and dereliction of duty. Fully 80% of the Legion members at my post were happy to sign it. This repudiation of a Republican President would have previously been unthinkable.
The slimy, sociopathic shithead may not realize it, but there's a storm coming.
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His disdain and disrespect for military and veterans has always been present.
Nice to see some of your fellows are coming around, but damn, how selectively blind can people be?
