The greatest irony of all is that Trump catapulted over the neocons' preferred presidential options by slamming their pet project — the War on Iraq. Trump's criticism of that war and the chaos it unleashed resonated with the very voters the Neocons took for granted as pliable, fear-responsive bumpkins. That left the neocons out in the cold just as they were angling to trump the disorderly, hard-to-prosecute mess they call "The Global War on Terror."
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https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/07/why-neocons-cant-stomach-trump/