Since that epic ride down the golden escalator, Donald Trump’s slaughtered a lot of permanent Washington’s sacred cows in his time, but this one has to take the cake.
In the Bush era, a Republican — or a Democrat — of any standing floating the idea of targeting the bloated Pentagon would have rendered him or her persona non grata, engendering denunciations of alleged secret al-Qaeda sympathies and all kinds of nonsense from the War of Terror days.
