It's barely even close. Everything that was horrible about Trump was presaged by Bush. He unleashed far more harm on the world than Trump did.

  • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    For sure. But is Bush worse than Reagan? That’s a circle I haven’t squared quite yet. Figured this is as good a place to ask as any.

    • HarryLime [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Reagan was awful, but I'd say Dubya was worse than him.

    • goldsound [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I think I give the slight edge to Reagan because he made Dubya possible. Reagan ushered in the conservative era as we know it today, plus he opened the way for Poppy. Dubya was just kinda following the plan those 2 made over the course of 12 years in the white house.

    • Tripbin [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      You could argue Reagan is heavily responsible for playing parts in the destabilization of the middle east and areas of central/south america. Throw in the many people who died of AIDS as he literally laughed at professional advice on how to deal with it because he didn't give a shit that blacks and gays were dying. Just one less step for him.

      Let's throw in the crack epidemic, the overall ramping of the war on drugs alone is countless lives, and I'm sure I'm missing countless other atrocities that I forgot, or mostly cause I don't know if a brain can hold enough storage to compile all of Reagans atrocities.