Trump is the product of a Bush family conspiracy to rehabilitate Dubya's image.

Bush II should have swung besides Saddam, but trump has dashed any hopes I have for holding GWB accountable for pissing away the future of the middle class to murder the shit out of people on the other side of the world.

Man, its wild how much i miss conservatives of yesteryear.

Bush is an example of how much the Overton window moved in the last 20 years.

I remember flying into Midland Texas during Trump's first term and seeing a poster of Bush II with the caption "Bet you miss me now!"

Or it is proof that over time you start forgetting how bad it was and it will unfortunately be the same with Trump.

I think Bush was bad but a lot of the bad stuff he did was somewhat reversible (ICE existed , plus it's not his fault that ICE is now used as a papers-please. There was PATRIOT but we reversed it so it's actually a great example of what I mean.) and relatively short-term. Reagan, meanwhile, made a giant hole in the infrastructure that is still ingrained within everything US today.

To me there's no comparison. Bush Jr. is responsible for a million Iraqi civilian deaths. As much as people wish it were so, Trump doesn't hold a candle to that (yet).

I wish this wasn't true, but I'm almost certain it will be.

He has yet to reign over the deaths of millions of people for being in the out-group.

Don't misunderstand me, Trump is a walking bag of syphilitic, pus filled, nazi cumsocks. But he's not attained quite the level of warcrimes Hitler did. Not yet anyway.

Nero-esque

I can’t or won’t even begin to imagine how that could be possible.

Remember, George Bush Jr was so hated that Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush Jr.

The only thing scarier than Trump is someone of equal character but actually competent. I wanted to write ten times as competent at first, but then realized that's the same thing as Trump.

We can and certainly will.

This was my reaction. I read the question and thought "Optimistic much?"

I believe that the best years of our country are behind us. The erosion of the ethical values of those serving in public office the 'acceptance of daylight corruption,' betrayal of our allies, and the attack on education, intellectualism, and renewable energy will set us back for a long time.

Whoever comes next will be blamed for the state of the economy and the government.

There's just one sliver of hope: When Trump keels over the Republicans will tear each other qpart like cats in a bag. That's your opportunity. You have to get the right people in, you (the "left of MAGA", basically normies) will win an easy landslide just that one time..

I'm British and this is what happened here - the right briefly in disaray allowed our centre-left party to win big. Just once.. now Labour are blamed for everything and are getting destroyed in the polls.

There is a blueprint the heritage foundations project 2025 is over halfway implemented

He does fit, but remember: He's just the symptom and if the Republicans wanted too, Trump would be gone in 24h. There are just many evil people who keep Trump were he is while pushing him one way or the other to get what they want.

Trump has been an awful human being long before he became president, so no sympathy needed, but what is being done to him is elder abuse.

genius of W

Is that meant to be ironic? 😅

Canada hated both Bushes. We hate Bushes so much CDN women shave their beavers.

He actually threatened our biggest ally and biggest border for no reason at all. Totally nuts.