But a bunch of "when they go low we go high" resistance heads watched George W Bush eat a sugar cube out of Michelle Obama's hand at a ballgame one time and decided his dipshit paintings meant he wasn't as mean and nasty as Trump
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If there was any memory-holing going on, it was guys like Will hand-waving away the imperial executive, institutionalized torture, two monstrous expeditionary wars that spanned decades, the militarization of police, and countless other Bush-era horrors
It was far from the only factor in why dem support collapsed last year, but campaigning with the Cheneys when your chances rely on reassembling the '08 coalition was definitely one of them. More people remember than they think.
The whitewashing of GW Bush has been hard to watch. Schlesinger Jr.'s warnings about the imperial presidency came full force during Bush. That Rove aid put their outlook the best, when he argued that being an empire meant they get to create their own reality. Now Trump is really putting that to test
The "unified executive" theory that we're seeing come to fruition under Trump now was first floated to give W the powers needed to prosecute wars wherever he wanted.
When are people gonna learn that Will in no way is equipped to be any kind of a leader or unifying force because he exists simply to fight with people online
Those Bush-era horrors were entirely bipartisan. Democrats love what Bush did and they keep trying to promote Democratic candidates who vocally and legislatively supported the worst of W’s crimes against humanity.
they still see the bipartisan passing of ICE and Patriot Act and the fact that the media was firing dissenters and war critics instead of the government as a beautiful moment in history
Also, I think people knew guys like Bush were generally not saying the quiet part out loud, and they just assumed that, if this is what Trump was saying, just IMAGINE what the quiet part is!
But there's no quiet part. He's not savvy enough for that. He just does what he says he'll do. No surprises.
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I wonder if that was Harris' angle with the Cheneys too...
Liberal politics in the US is all about performative congeniality with the opposition, and by that measure Bush was an exemplar.
Bush's true nature is reflected in the outcomes.
But there's no quiet part. He's not savvy enough for that. He just does what he says he'll do. No surprises.