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.

  • Sunn_Owns [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Leftists say it because Bush has been re-habilitated as some kind of okay President. He wasn't. Trump and Bush were both disastrous.

    • Tatoes [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Right, but the reflex to project out all the things that Bush paved the way for without also projecting out all the things Trump just paved the way for is intellectually dishonest at best, fascist apologia at worse. Bush was tragedy. Trump was farce.

        • Tatoes [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          Every fucking leftist worth his or her salt correctly saw the roads paved by the Bush administration and were appalled by what was surely to come. The Trump administration proved most of them to be correct. I'm telling you now what has been paved by the Trump administration and you're giving me 8th grade level philosophy in return.

          • Sunn_Owns [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Every fucking leftist worth his or her salt correctly saw the roads paved by the Bush administration and were appalled by what was surely to come. The Trump administration proved most of them to be correct.

            I agree.

            I’m telling you now what has been paved by the Trump administration and you’re giving me 8th grade level philosophy in return.

            I get where your frustration is coming from. Trump's abasement of the norms will become the new normal, as it was under Bush. If we were to apply a historical materialist lens to Bush and Trump, the future should be obvious (Republicans will become more aggressive in enacting minority rule and continue hoarding capital).

            I just didn't get all that from your first post.

            you’re giving me 8th grade level philosophy in return.

            Seems unnecessary.