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That’s a very nice way of placing the failures of the Vietnam War, as we know it – the Vietnamese call it the American War – at the feet of a handful of leaders who overestimated America’s might and capability in a land they knew next to nothing about.

But Westmoreland comes off merely as bungling next to the late Henry Kissinger, whose hawkish influence in the closing acts of the war, along with expanding the conflict to Laos and Cambodia, rightly earned his war criminal designation.

“David coined this phrase, ‘normalizing the marginalized,’” Jessica explains when we chat on a video call in April, sitting next to David in their Southern California home.

Wednesday's report revealed the driver was supposed to check the sanding system, but was unable to do so because the train was parked next to a platform.

But throughout the evening, Khanna answered questions mostly with broad, big-picture answers—he was light on specifics about what Democrats would be doing next to push back on Trump.