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I'm not young and I'm really not proud. It's honestly embarrassing. Trump was a disgrace and ruined any sense of pride I had.
Honestly: For all his many, many, many faults, he was still a massive improvement over Bush junior. His insurrection and the way he handled Covid was terrible, but the Iraq-war was worse and unforgivable.
I'll have to disagree on that one. Bush sucked but he was better. The left and right weren't at war with each other, we could have conversations and discussions. Now you cannot.
I agree with you.
I had a discussion with a coworker just before a company meeting during W's 2nd campaign and I expressed how terrible I thought he was and even said I couldn't understand how or why anyone would vote for him... My coworker told me that he voted for him, thought he'd been doing a great job, and planned to vote for him again... And that was all there was to it... No animosity, judgement, or hard feelings between us ... We just never discussed it again.
No, they both sucked but in very different ways.
Bush weakened many of our institutions and lead us into two forever wars. And a huge recession in which he did diddly squat to get us out of it.
Trump is a traitor and embraced a Russian psyops campaign against the American public while getting his face full of shit.
Yeah, if we keep having this tendency to say someone wasn't too bad once someone worse comes around, we'll just end up thinking Trump was great by comparison to whatever crappy politician we have as president in 20 years.
Bush was worse, due to Iraq, but I still wouldn't say Trump was a massive improvement. He was still an imperialist, like Bush, and almost started a war with Iran
We know the extent of the damage Bush caused. We won't fully grasp what Trump has ruined for a generation