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Neocons are doomed because of their foreign interventions. Taking immigration out of the picture for a minute, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans would still be telling their younger relatives to stay out of the military at all costs. We'd still have the Afghan collapse, Iraq being Iran's playground, and China kicking our teeth in. Immigration has almost nothing to do with it.

The neocons are out because they're twisted little boys who played too much Risk. They ran directly into the bear trap the Bin Laden baited for them and basically ended the American Empire single-handedly.

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Nope, their foreign policy failures actually did relatively little to reduce their support among white voters. See the sources linked in the article.

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Trump went through the 2016 GOP primary like tissue paper the second that he told Jeb Bush that the Iraq War was a disaster. Immigration got him on the stage, but him being the only GOP candidate to tell a Bush to get bent is what carried him through.

What source are you talking about, that white people remain supportive of Israel? Woopity doo! There's still essentially zero support for more an interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East or elsewhere. You'll notice that the Democrats haven't even bothered trying to sell the Ukraine War in this election. Trump is getting support today by saying that he'll "end the wars." (No specifics of course).

If you think that Neocons still have a base of public support among white people, why isn't Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio finishing up their second term just about now?

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