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Yep. Follow the money.

To wit, I have a cousin who was career military (Annapolis, USMC, Joint Chiefs of Staff under Clinton) and now a lobbyist for major defense contractors. I typically see him every year at a family Christmas party or summer bar-b-que where he drinks profusely, as you would expect of any hard-charging career Marine, which inevitably leads to him talking loud and proud towards the end of the day. And without fail, he ends up spouting off about how the Pentagon and big contractors care more about keeping the money flowing for newer, bigger, and more expensive weapons systems/platforms and profits at the expense of older, cheaper, equally effective, and proven inventory.

One particular example is the F-15 vs. F-22. The F-22 was designed and intended to replace the 15s and 16s and took 20 years of development and $35 billion to produce 8 test aircraft and 187 operational aircraft until the program was shut down in favor of upgrading the F-15 into the F15SE Silent Eagle. However, it became apparent to the Pentagon that they could upgrade the F-15 close enough to suffice for the F-22 and allow them to use the remaining F-22 budget to invest in other more lucrative R&D projects.

A according to my cousin, the Deep State (Pentagon, defense contractors, career bureaucrats, lobbyists) feared Trump intended to clean house and stop this corruption and graft and end the gravy train, as did the entire D.C. establishment. There was no need to discuss what needed to be done. Trump had to be crushed by whatever means necessary. To hell with what the majority of voters wanted.