re: #119 austin_blue

But after eight years of Obama Derangement Syndrome, the victims smile and say “Oh, this is so much better!”

Good points. I seem to be an anomaly, though - if anything, trump has made me have a MORE negative opinion of dubya.

Why? I guess because trump gives their game away in a manner more blatant than any other. I can see with frightening clarity how they treated 9/11 as a Reichstag-Fire event to push through burgeoning fascism (unnecessary war of aggression built on lies, torture, Patriot Act, etc)

I can also see how the Iraq War obscenity had a lasting “boy who cried wolf” effect which enables people (from pumpkin pinochet himself to the far left) to claim US intelligence agencies have no credibility - “after all, they lied about Iraq and WMD, so why should we believe them about Russia now?”

They’d never be able to get so much mileage out of that argument if it hadn’t been for dubya paving the way. His presidency was the illness that weakened America’s immune system to the point where trumpism could ultimately infect the entire country.