‘A big fat mistake’: the wars that helped Donald Trump rise to power
The ‘Forever Wars’ against terrorism that the US embarked on after 9/11 produced many orphans – and one of them was the Republican Party of old.
From the very start, Donald Trump’s stunning 2016 lurch to victory was supercharged by the populist rocks he threw at America’s political establishment on both sides of the political divide.
But one of the biggest was the epic boulder he crashed into the old guard Republican Party’s great hope of that year, Jeb Bush – the brother of George W. Bush, the US president who unleashed the global war on terror 20 years ago.
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