Posted on 02/03/2018 9:08:13 AM PST by markomalley
Oh, how easily people forget. It would be difficult to find a greater indicator of the fickle nature of politics or the hypocrisy of the party faithful than these two polls.
Democrats find Donald Trump so utterly loathsome that the man who illegally launched the catastrophic Iraq War, and signed the Patriot Act – stripping Americans of their privacy in the name of fighting terrorism – is enjoying the rehabilitation of his image in the eyes of the party that so vehemently opposed him all those years he was in office.
Loathsome as Trump may be, his sins thus far don’t come close to the list of atrocities committed by Bush. In fact, Trump’s sins haven’t even come close to those committed by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, whose “humanitarian” bombing, to take one example, helped to utterly destroy Libya — once the richest country in Africa, now a failed state and a haven for the slave trade.
The only thing that changes from one US administration to the next is the packaging and rhetoric. Human nature being what it is, people respond to the packaging far more than they do the policy. That kind of twisted and dishonest partisanship makes it easy for Democrats (or Republicans) to shout “war criminal!” at one man and cheer on another for doing essentially the same thing on a different day.
Francis Fukuyama, the American political scientist and the author of divisive books the End of History and the Last Man, wrote in 2015: “Compared to Donald Trump, George W. Bush looks like a paragon of statesmanship”.
The View co-host Joy Behar, a supposedly dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who has written a whole book about her hatred of Trump, gushed last year: “I love George Bush now!” Behar’s colleague on the panel Sunny Hostin praised the “more thoughtful” Bush for not instituting a Muslim travel ban after the 9/11 attacks. Evidently starting wars and actually killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims is “thoughtful” and a lesser sin than temporarily banning their entry into your country.
What has Bush done now to deserve such outpourings of admiration? Not much, really. All he had to do was offer some tepid criticism of Trump’s presidency a few times. He said he wasn’t fond of the “racism” and “name-calling” of the Trump era — and suddenly, we’re all supposed to be nostalgic for the Bush years. He also paints nice portraits and rescued a dog, more deeds which seem to have helped absolve him of his sins in the eyes of liberals like Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Kimmel.
Polls like these prove what level-headed people have known forever: There really is not much difference, morally speaking, between Democrats and Republicans — despite both parties trying to pass themselves off as paragons of decency. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not painting all Democrats or Republicans with the same brush, but your average partisan is more than willing to whip out the rose-tinted glasses while trying to rationalize support for their preferred candidate — who oftentimes is incredibly similar to other options.
When it comes to Bush, it isn’t just his military misadventures and war crimes Democrats seem to have forgotten either. What about his inefficient and arguably racist response to Hurricane Katrina? Or the CIA’s horrendous torture regime overseen by his administration? Bush’s detrimental environmental policies were as disastrous as Trump’s are, but those are seemingly forgotten, too. Then there’s the attacks on the media. Bush might espouse the importance of the press these days, but he wasn’t shy about bombing journalists during his tenure in office. These are not things you easily forget if your opposition to them is sincere.
As journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out on Twitter, Democrats’ newfound love for the FBI is just as confusing as their Bush nostalgia. The FBI is an institution which has been targeting “young, vulnerable Muslims” with learning disabilities and mental health issues to “entrap them by leading them into terror plots and sending them to prison for decades,” Greenwald wrote on Twitter.
“When the FBI is once again seen as a vehicle to punish its political enemies,” Young Turks journalist Michael Tracey wrote, Republican opinion on the agency will “flip overnight”. We know this is true already. When James Comey announced the reopening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal, Comey was cheered by Republicans for that decision and despised by Clinton clan devotees. Now that the FBI is investigating alleged collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian officials, suddenly the Democrats have discovered a newfound faith in the agency. Because reality doesn’t matter, policy doesn’t matter — sticking with ‘your guy’ and winning is what matters.
The fact that Democrats find it so easy to whitewash Bush, his terrible domestic policies and his murderous foreign policy highlights the near-total absence of integrity and intellectual honesty in politics today — and none of that has anything to do with Donald Trump.
Just goes to show how this is not an organic hatred, but one that is manufactured by their controllers to direct the mass of sheep in their party:
And Trump is the new Emmanuel Goldstein:
Because the left now despises someone even MORE than Bush..they hated Bush, threw shoes at him, called him a monkey, a Nazi, and wished him dead..they wish all the same for President Trump times 10
I don’t know about Bush but the dims like positions of power.
And giving each other awards.
Democrats are like the Borg on Star Trek. “We are the Borg, Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”
If you don’t assimilated they will seek to destroy you.
At least the Borg can be recovered if removed fromt the collective. Rarely is that true for Democrats.
Bush was always a liberal Democrat at his core - in just about every way, and just like the rest of his family. He and his supporters were simply very effective at promoting the Evangelical packaging. We see the truth now. Some of us here in TX always saw it. W was and is a little deceitful weasel of a politician. I am just glad that the base summoned enough backbone to oppose him on the AWB renewal and the Myers nomination. There were a lot of sycophants who apparently would have gone along with just about anything that he did.
And George Bush was satan straight from the maw of hell. They were told McCain was a right wing conservative psycho, and they dutifully believed that nonsense.
Their television is their brain.
This is what mob rule/democracy looks like.
It's why we are a republic.
You can see who the Bush supporters are(Ana Navarro, Dana Perino) you listen to them talk and you’d swear your listening to a liberal, because they are also for open borders..Obama got very very close to turning America into their Commie utopia, Clinton would have continued that legacy, they were literally that close, she was NOT supposed to lose but she did..this is them lashing out in anger at their plans being destroyed
Because they all serve the same overlords, the ultra wealthy NWO pukes
F the Dems .They are a clueless breed of mindless sheeple.
They “love” anyone who agrees with them and is willing/able to move their progressive platform forward. End of story.
Satanist and child molesters stick together.
you beat me to it. but yeah, Dems are easily whipsawed over and over again by their masters into believing diametrically viewpoints. I think it’s partially because the average Dem’s knowledge of history and current events only goes back about a week, that and the fact that liberal “logic” doesn’t exist.
Liking GWB no that Trump is president is a cost-free position from which to criticize the current office-holder. It makes the critic to appear to be the “bigger person” by simultaneously apologizing for past, unjust criticisims to add weight to the current ones.
I would just ask of the Joy Behars “If you were wrong then, why should I listen to you now?”
Looks like the Grammy’s, the Oscars, the Emmy’s...
Dems love Bush? It’s so simple a teen can figure it out: He is a RINO...
Right, and have you noticed as well that some of Bush’s most ardent supporters are also ardent never-Trumpers? This is why I am happy that McCain and Romney never won! We would still have had watered-down versions of what Obama did, ESPECIALLY the gun control, soft left federal judges, the same or more foreign intervention, and all with minimal Republican opposition, and no Trump.
So for all the misguided FReepers who think we should have held our noses and voted for GOPe candidates, and who abused those of us who refused to go along with it, I hope you have learned a lesson. But, I doubt it.
Look at John McCain..seriously has that guy turn into a total a-hole or what!!! I feel bad for Sarah Palin, she had NO chance once she joined that pitiful campaign..they didn’t want to win, look at the way that Wallace and Schmidt talk these days, they are BOTH far left loons..I doubt they would even root for Jeb Bush the way they talk these days..we have to purge the Republican party of these liberal loons like Flake, McCain, etc
McCain was always that way at his core. Look at how he treated his first wife after coming back from VN.
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