"right-wing militarism"???
Civil War started by Southern Democrats - American deaths = 620,000
WWI - War declared by a Democrat - Woodrow Wilson - American deaths = 116,000
WWII - War declared by a Democrat - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - American deaths = 405,000
Korea - War declared by a Democrat - Harry Truman - American deaths = 53,000
Vietnam - War declared by a Democrat - Lyndon Baines Johnson - American deaths = 58,000