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?
Not ever being a CNN or such watcher, not sure how the media treated him. It was, however, clear that something was influencing a large part of the dem population to hatred. It was the first time I remember bumper stickers appearing with presidential vitriol (Bush, superimposed with Satan).
At the time, I was Libertarian identified so not a huge Bush fan. The loss of general decorum regarding the office of president by the general population struck me. It was the beginning of the pushed division.