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"Trump even talked bout the cost of war and how the trillions we wasted on war could have been used to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure — a theme we have been harping on all these years with a campaign called 'bring our war dollars home.'

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"He got elected on the wave of a very mobilized and excited grass-roots base, and the anti-war movement was part of that base, as was the environmental movement and many people in the immigration movement," said Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink. "All of us are feeling either deeply disappointed or simply demoralized; and if he isn't able to excite the base, he's going to have a problem in the re-election."

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