“Do you understand the the ‘kinder, gentler’ approach of the first Bush is the type of reaction we allowed ourselves for three decades and that THIS is where it has gotten us?”
The problem with Bush wasn’t kindness or gentleness, it was bad policy. It was endless war, endless spending, endless expansion of the welfare state.
Kindness and gentleness has nothing to do with it. Bush wasn’t capitulating, all of that bad policy was WHO HE WAS.
Do you even know who the first Bush was?