They say Donald Trump is divisive. He isn’t. They say Donald Trump is destructive. He’s not.

Donald Trump is Disillusioning. It’s rough stuff, it really is; I can see why people don’t want to hear it, don’t want to know it.

I’ve lived under illusions of my own. I was a warblogger in the old days, and I fervently supported the Iraq War, the second one.

How could I have made such a dreadful mistake? I got fooled because the war was sold as a moral crusade by the neoconservatives. Maybe the war would have turned out better if moral crusaders were in charge. Maybe not. But we had a sincere vision of a war against Tyranny and Terror. That’s what we thought we were doing.

As it happened, I’m pretty sure we just wasted American blood and treasure on a stupid fantasy. Democracy wasn’t feasible in Iraq, for reasons I’ll get into some other time.

I got disillusioned. Iraq wasn’t a moral crusade, it didn’t really change anything except Americans were dying over there.

It was the neoconservatives, the now NeverTrumpers, who sold these wars to us. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of the self-licking ice-cream cone, the Military-Industrial Complex. That’s one thing we learned. NeverTrump and Democrats are always WAR WAR WAR, and they always fuck everything up, because that’s where the money is.