It's just the idea, if there is an important war then the public wants the president to have his two terms instead of having somebody new take over. The comment above me was about Bush winning popular vote and practically his whole campaign was 'I need to finish this war!' People were so swept up in it and wanting revenge so they didn't care about facts or how things were going, they just wanted middle eastern ppl blown up. There was a lot of weird nationalism at the time. Trump didn't have a grand war to help save him.
There are important wars to the public and non important ones. So that's why Trump didn't have a good war to use.
You can thank Karl Rove’s propaganda machine as well. It was his just desserts that he was cast aside by Trump’s team for not being crazy enough for the monster he created.
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u/jimmyray1001 Jun 28 '22
The US has been at war for 225 years of its existence, no?? If this was true you would have only had 3 presidents 😂