Truly mind-boggling. The vast sums invested in the RW propaganda machine, which has worked tirelessly to demonize anyone to the left of Archie Bunker over many years, is really paying off.

Dick Cheney had five deferments as well as "other priorities" and still gets ovations at military gatherings as if he stormed the because at Nomandy.

It's about whether you have hawkish ideology, not whether you actually served in the military.

I'm a Vietnam era vet, and many of my fellow vets can't wait to go vote for this draft dodging clown.

Edit to add: Including a female vet I know. Totally brainwashed beyond help.

But for someone who does, I would hope that someone could say, "At least have the decency to admit that your support for Trump isn't rooted in some patriotic (if misguided) impulse, but that you just can't stand the woman, any more than you could stand the black man."