Donald Trump’s profligate spending on America’s domestic militarization, coupled with tax cuts for the rich and continued military adventures abroad, suggests that much in American conservatism today remains similar to what it was under George W. Bush.

After President Donald Trump’s reckless bombing of three nuclear facilities in Iran last June, commentators were quick to draw parallels with George W. Bush’s calamitous invasion of Iraq in 2003, once described by Trump as possibly “the worst decision” in presidential history. After initially capturing the GOP a decade ago by railing against neoconservatives and the Bush administration for lying about “weapons of mass destruction” to justify their invasion, Trump, now in power, revealed himself to be the “ultimate neocon.”

Not long after,

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