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The far-left crashing out at Trump for changing course shows how out of touch they’re with reality

Let me tell you a story.

It was 1978, and I was on a training exercise just south of the DMZ in Korea during the nadir of Jimmy’s Carter’s post-Vietnam military.

We lacked for everything except pity for what a pitiful state America’s Army had fallen into.

America itself was not in much better shape, hammered by economic “stagflation” and moral malaise.

There, on the coldest night of my life, covered in frozen mud so thick I looked like I was wearing a mud jumpsuit, the mess hall delivered a steak dinner.

That shoe-leather tough, scrawny piece of meat was one of the best meals of my life.

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Thoughts of it returned to me this week, when leftist lunatics started caterwauling in unison about alleged luxuries they’d unearthed in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s budget.

A generation earlier, my dad was a couple hundreds of miles north on a frozen, naked windswept........

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