Well, we suffer fools gladly at our own peril. I suspect that a W administration will seem innocuous to what many of us imagine the next 1,387 days will bring.
I'm not saying W was a good president or that he made better decisions. Between the two—evils, options, whatever—Bush at least grasped democracy and humanity. I don't think that can be said of the current scenario.
Yes. I disagreed profoundly with "W" on many things, but I always had the impression that he actually wanted to do what he thought was best for America. I have no such impression about the Orange Fiend.
Well, assuming that we're going to have Republican Presidents from time to time, Trump does make me miss GWB. There's "wrong" and then there's "hideously evil and a danger to democracy itself."
I feel that in my bones. If we’re alive and kicking, then we live to fight another day. That’s what I am holding on to. That’s what I have to do for the sake of my own kid.
Good news for you is that the GOP actively pretends GWB never existed, apparently to great success. History started with Ronald Reagan, then Hillary Clinton messed everything up, Obama did 9/11 and Katrina and destroyed the economy, and God-Emperor Trump fixed it all again.
Still remarkable that one brief sound was enough to make a country think "this guy's too unstable to lead" while we've had 8 years of a screaming fascist idiot and nobody who voted for him was at all phased.
It was a different political climate, of course, but the lesson seems to be that if a candidate makes one misstep they will be pilloried for it. If they confidently provide a Gish Gallop of missteps they will be lauded.
Yes, the climate you are describing didn't exist until 2016. The media and the GOP allowed him to change the culture. Dragged us right down into the cesspit.
Long ago I had a college prof who would deliberately commit some social gaff in the very first class, and at intervals during the semester -- if could be as simple as pulling out a rumpled bandana and blowing his nose.
After Joe Wilson wrote his op-ed, his wife, Valerie Plame, who was an undercover agent in the CIA, was outed by Carl Rove. Scooter Libby took the fall.
But he did thwart the chimera threat, no? (From 2006: "Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research ... creating human-animal hybrids.")
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https://www.factcheck.org/2004/07/bushs-16-words-on-iraq-uranium/
The standards haven't just slipped, they are entirely gone.
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