cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46324692
April 22, 2026
[written by a former #Obama admin official]
“I don’t want other young Americans to go through what I’ve been through. And I don’t want to send other young Americans to inflict the horror that I had to inflict on people.”
Polling suggests that most Americans agree with him. So does the feedback he gets day to day. The people he meets overwhelmingly oppose the war; many are furious or heartbroken about it. That includes his fellow veterans. “I don’t know a single guy I served with who thinks this thing in Iran is a good idea,” he told me. Many of those guys are MAGA. “This was one of the reasons they were big Trump supporters — he was the antiwar or ‘America first’ candidate.”
I love this guy and really do feel that he accurately represents most Americans more than any other politician in Maine. He is one of us. He’s had his problems and overcome them. He wants real meaningful change.