re: Would you vote for a candidate who ran on a “major cutbacks to lower deficit” platform?

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Make significant cuts to military spending.

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only if the spending comes by no longer footing the defense bill for half the world. We absolutely need to pay to refit our military with better, more advanced warfighting systems, since Obama basically let us wither on the vine for a decade and cancelled every next gen program we had going except the f35, which became a massive boondoggle. We spent a decade more concerned with getting trannies onto aircraft carriers than our ability to fight wars