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Ben Wikler: “Trump ran on the idea that he was not going to get us into…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Coffee with The Contrarians

Published | Video Starts at 31:31

It's where you try to whip up a frenzy, focused often on a little military intervention that can become the totally dominant forces of dominating the narrative, the media. If it bleeds, it leads. But Trump ran on the idea that he was not going to get us into wars. His political brand has been that he's the anti war guy. And supposedly the Republican Party had swung around with him against their old views about military force and foreign policy, and now aligned with Trump. (31:31–31:35)

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Asserts that Trump's political campaign included a promise not to engage in wars.

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