For those that were following politics 20 years ago: If the crazy negative bias in the media (news, late night shows, Hollywood, etc) against Trump is a 97 out of 100... then what number would you give the treatment George W Bush received at the time?
I remember a lot of George W Bush jokes and hatred during the early part of this century, but I literally did not follow politics AT ALL until the day after the 2016 election when I started to look into it. ONE of the things that I found strange right off the bat was the over the top, nonsensical and hysterical hatred for our new president. It made me intuit, even before Q or anything else, that something weird was going on. But, some argue that Bush was treated the same way by the media (the legal system is another story). For those that paid attention, how different is this?
Bush was (and is) uniparty. He was issued (and took) enough abuse to facilitate the desired narrative. With Trump, the pure, unadulterated hatred is real and palpable. He infuriated them to the point that they showed their asses, and showed their contempt and desire to transform this country into a third world cesspool.
This. There was Bush Derangement Syndrome before there was TDS. In my view it was all a dry run/psyop to beta test the methods to be used if a real patriot ever got elected.
My contempt for the Bushes knows no bounds - he is in the same league as the Clintons and the Obamas. With that said, he LARPed successfully as a conservative for eight years. Very easy to fool us at that time because we had no basis for comparison.
I think the person who posted would agree with you that there were very good reasons to hate Bush, it’s just that most normies got steered into the controlled opposition version of Bush criticism which was more like impotent whining and not doing something like questioning 9/11. A certain controllable group was born. Many people never got over this phase.. basically they don’t like Trump or bush for being “ republican and Christian “ and they blind themselves to the fact that Trump and gwb are completely opposed