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Inexcusably Trump got it wrong. WMD were found in Iraq (and yes, chemical weapons are considered WMD). One of the truly infuriating things about the Bush administration was they didn't let the news out, allowing the Leftists to bang on endlessly with their "Bush lied about WMD" canard (which itself ignored the fact that Hussein's WMD program was on fast standby, capable of being restarted almost on an instant, and that WMD was only one of a dozen casus belli for Gulf War 2).
Having said that, Rod Dreher has an excellent piece today in The American Conservative Trump: Fishtown's Champion Against Belmont. He talks about why Trump is resonating with voters in Fishtown. He relates an anecdote about a woman going to work with a broken hand (bold emphasis mine):
The thing that gets to me about this woman is that because of my own personal social network, I know how hard she works, and at a time in life when people her age are supposed to be able to slow down and take it easy. She will be working that hard until the day she drops, because she has nothing.
What does Jeb Bush have to offer her? Or Marco Rubio? Or Ted Cruz? Frankly, I don’t think that Donald Trump has much to offer her either (as J.D. Vance grasps), but he at least sees her, or appears to. That’s not nothing. Yes, Trump comes across as deranged and his followers look delusional from Main Feed St. in Belmont. But spend some time in Fishtown and ask yourself if you were in their shoes how might you be tempted to vote. Like for example if you were this woman whose son was murdered by an illegal and made what to her was a hard decision to vote for Trump. Paraphrasing Mark Steyn, when respectable leaders abdicate their responsibilities and refuse to do their jobs people turn to disrespectable leaders, which is why we've seen the rise of Trump.
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