By posting this, partisans will accuse me of aiding and abetting Donald Trump. Search this post for pro-Trump statements. You will not find any. This is a post to remind progressives that Hillary Clinton—the leading candidate to become the commander of an obscene military arsenal—is more hawkish than Barack Obama (the guy with a kill list), to the point where she has aligned herself with a roster of prominent Bush-affiliated conservatives and neocons.
The implications of her foreign policy posture for millions of poor and brown people, including women, around the world are not positive. Their lives matter.
It's possible to hold two ideas simultaneously: 1) Trump is a quasi-fascist, he represents an existential threat to women and minorities, and he must be defeated. 2) It's deeply troubling that Clinton, who is lightyears better than Trump on domestic policy, embraces war criminals instead of repudiating them.
ICYMI: Hillary is no "neocon," but liberals are right to panic. She's repudiating Obama's feckless foreign policy https://t.co/M98wYRfVHS
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) September 2, 2016
Clinton gets to Trump's right on national security https://t.co/UnIQaNAJxs Clinton rebuked any idea of “leading from behind.”
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 31, 2016
A Hillary Clinton aide tells a Politico writer they’ve reached out to Henry Kissinger, hoping for an endorsement. https://t.co/Tcf0kWIn1C
— Tara McKelvey (@Tara_Mckelvey) August 8, 2016
Newly released documents reveal Henry Kissinger’s role in Argentina’s Dirty War. History will not absolve him. https://t.co/jN5NpbbTeu
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 20, 2016
“I would say that a majority of people in my circle will vote for Hillary,” said neocon Robert Kagan. https://t.co/Btfc9wXEFP #DemConvention
— The Intercept (@theintercept) July 25, 2016
Can I be happy about a historic woman nominee, want to defeat Trump, and not let her off the hook for being an neocon/bankster? Yes? Cool.
— Ansel Herz (@Ansel) July 29, 2016
The group responsible for the sticker, Wwwayrard, trolled Trump supporters into buying Voldemort posters bearing Trump's visage in June, then donated the proceeds an LGBTQ Latino group fighting Obama's deportation regime. Its editor, Yeni Sleidi, criticized that naked Trump statue which attracted so much attention as "trite and transphobic."
