# Goodbye, General Mattis

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-general-mattis/826453 "2018-12-20T23:19:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodbye-general-mattis/826453/93 "2018-12-22T17:12:02Z")

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It’s crazy how much the media wants war… As a left-of-center guy, it’s appalling for Democrats to defend Mattis. If Trump says single-payer works fine in Canada (which he did in the first GOP debate), liberals (if there are any) should at least try to embrace it, instead of being anti-Trump regardless.

(Notice how both political parties seem to have done a 180 on trade in the last few years, but since the 90s in general).

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