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?
There was always pushback against and disdain for Bush. But it seemed like "normal" media liberal bias.
Once Trump came in, "the mask dropped." It felt to me like the media no longer even cared to "pretend" to be somewhat objective. They had unadulterated hatred for him and didn't care who knew it.
That's how it felt (and still feels) to me. And I've been paying attention a long time.
I think that is my main curiosity. I feel that the insane rhetoric involving Trump should be one of the main things that provoke someone to wake up. It just seems so weird and over the top and profoundly propagandist. But, people will say that Bush (or Reagan) were treated the same way and I don't know how wrong they are to feel that way. Or how different the environment right now feels to someone in their 50s or 60s who has been paying attention this whole time.
During his first campaign I figured out I didn't like him much, but I figured I would still vote for an R than a D (pretty much just like always).
What was funny though was my neighbor was a baby-car-driving pretentious a-hole lib. Total Beta male. (This was in Texas...) You know - the type that would always report people to an HOA if their grass was just a tad too high. He always had all the democrat signs in his yard so I went and got a Bush sign. He stole it that night. I got more signs, and put one in his yard and about 5 or 6 in mine.
He came out in the morning when I was getting ready to leave for work and started freaking out and screaming at me. That is, until I told him I had him on my camera stealing my sign and that I could call the police and ask them to charge him for petty theft and trespassing.
That night I took all the rest of my signs down but left one up just to piss him off. It was worth it since that was a rent house I was in for only about a year before I could buy the house I wanted.
BDS was definitely around back then, but it may have just been because of the media projecting to all the weak-minded libs.