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?
I think Bush's role, which he embraced was to be so awful that US politics would be handed over to the dems to preside over the final destruction of America.
“Hatred” of W Bush by the media was justified, but likely intentionally allowed to be publicly over-the-top to keep the conservatives “on the plantation”. Left/Right fake divide is easy to maintain if you place an impassable crevice between. Also it was setup to herd the left over to Obama who ironically was created/controlled by the Bushes. Engineered variation of handoff from Bush Sr to Clinton in 1993. (Clinton was also created by/allied with Bushes).
Plus he really is a retard, but smarter than Jeb if you can believe it.
I will not bother to spit even for a Bush, but it is a mistake to rate GW Bush as a "retard." When he was in the Air National Guard, he flew an F-102, a delta-winged single-engine supersonic interceptor. Not for the mentally impaired or faint of heart, since the glide slope was not very good, the landing angle was high, and if the engine flamed out, you had seconds to figure out what to do next. (One of my managers was a former F-102 pilot.)
Calling him a retard is bad cause
Give the man his agency. Letting them get away with pretending to be stupid is part of how we got into this mess.
Good point about agency. I see too many of us denigrating our opposition, probably out of a desire to bolster our own "superiority." As though name-calling was effective against them.