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Republicans' utter and obvious disdain for Veterans

 
 
Reply Wed 21 Aug, 2024 08:29 am
Longstanding myth: Republicans are the party to support US veterans.
Can toxic exposure law break GOP’s electoral edge with veterans?

If you vote for Trump? Someone who has openly shown disdain for our military veterans? That means you hate and are willing to undermine our troops at every aspect of their life (during and post military career).

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Trump faced criticism from speakers for a myriad of comments he has either made in public or allegedly made in private about veterans. For example, Kelly criticized Trump for saying last week that the Presidential Medal of Freedom was “much better” than the Congressional Medal of Honor, whose recipients are usually “dead” or “in very bad shape.”
 
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Reply Wed 21 Aug, 2024 09:33 am
@tsarstepan,
It's going to take a lot to push vets from the Republican Party. Post Vietnam, the military was treated like crap and paid accordingly. Under Carter, a young enlisted man with a family would need food stamps to close his budget. When Reagan was elected, one of the first things he did was dramatically increase military pay. It wasn't what you could get on the outside, but I can tell you from first hand experience, that a lot of military families (young boomers who are now Republican diehards) have a very clear memory of who showed them some respect. Trump has shown complete disdain for the military, but the way the Democratic Party abandoned the military in the 70's just isn't forgotten.
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