I’ve got two great explanations for you:
Their names are
Al Gore and John Kerry.
Make sure you check out Al Gore in all his glory at WEF.
That should make crystal clear why Bush can be “defended”
I’m genuinely unhappy with the purist dogma at FR that pretends it would be better to have a democrat than Trump.
I’m not opposed to an array of not democrat alternatives but these discussions should be grounded in political reality.
Certainly the Bushes did some good things. Despite Trump selfishly trying to take credit for killing Roe, it was really 2 awesome Bush picks and a stubborn and selfish RBG that killed Roe.
Trump should thank our Lord in heaven that he was blessed with an opportunity to replace RBG. Instead, he acts like it was something he worked for and accomplished. Unless he poisoned her, he did very little to end Roe.
Trump is now analogous to Bush jr. Both cost America a great deal of life and treasure for the misguided wars. Trump did more damage directly to American, by far.
The Trump SwampJab is his WMD.
Doesn't matter that both men meant well and that both were mis-informed. They still both caused gigantic suffering and both failed in their mission.
HWB, at one time, was wildly more popular than Trump ever dreamed about... then he lost re-election.