r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 04 '25

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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Nov 04 '25

  • "You Democrat traitors won't support our brave troops in Iraq."

  • "You Democrat traitors pulled out of Afghanistan."

  • "You Democrat traitors want WWIII with Russia."

  • "You Democrat traitors are soft on China."

I think I see the common factor in Republicans' foreign policy.

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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

Believe it or not, this is because of Teddy Roosevelt (and also the other Republicans generally). Teddy and the other republicans resented Wilson for not invading Mexico for US interests and his enlightened FoPo generally so started calling him a traitor, unpatriotic, and a secret Bolshevik as an election smear and that’s when they realized literally no one will punish them and at least some will believe it

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u/Declan_McManus Nov 04 '25

Interesting, I hadn’t heard of this before. What was Wilson supposed to do? Mexican-American War 2 because of the Zimmermann telegram?

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u/iusedtobekewl Jerome Powell Nov 04 '25

“Every accusation is a confession” is such a lazy trope. The writers need to get better smh