thekev
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Duckworth likely didn't want the job.
Though she would have been an interesting pick, simply because it would've exposed bare the hypocrisy underlying the Trump fanatic's self-professed adoration of the military.
Here's a woman who sacrificed both her legs in defense of our country. Who's her opponent? A Vietnam draft dodger. You'd think that would give her a massive advantage among the Trump right. But no. They only love the military so long as the military shows its love for Trump. It'd take him all of 5 seconds before he'd go for that low hanging fruit to make light of her disability, and his ever-loyal fanbase would LOVE him for it.
Yeah, well.....fuck those guys. In other cases such as Obama, a lot of people were disappointed with some of his actions. @jkcerda regularly mentions his signing of indefinite detention. I did not see people constantly searching for justification of actions that they would not normally support though. With Hilary Clinton, most of the time, it was similar.
With Trump, whatever he does, some vocal subset of his followers will find a way to retroactively add justification or blindly support whatever justification one of his cabinet members tacks on. He's like an idiot's vision of a good businessman. Shapiro already takes the title of "idiot's vision of a smart person", so I won't assign that one to Trump. I lost respect for differences of opinion when many of those opinions are almost entirely backed by disingenuous reasoning.
My comment on Duckworth didn't have so much to do with her military service record though. Her name has come up this election cycle, and she appears to be a respectable person with some senatorial experience. That is a good start, given that the president and vice president are just two people out of many required to run the executive branch.