re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Eschaton, today:

I don’t have kids so I don’t have insight anyone should listen to, but I sometimes wonder about parenting/growing up in the Trump era. Whether in a Trump-loving household, or a Trump-hating one, kids grew up (for 4 years) seeing The President Of The United States as Donald fucking Trump.

Young millennials and the oldest Zoomers grew up seeing George Fucking Bush as the president. I know Bush was packaged on teevee as Commander Bunnypants, the great savior of Western civilization, Giver of Turkee to the world, but he was almost as absurd as Trump was.

That’s separate from their policies or governance. Just, look at those fucking goofuses! The presidents!
Dignitude

For all his flaws — and they were many, with very serious and deadly consequences—Bush was not a racist or Islamophobe. Two of his senior advisors, with whom he had a close relationship, were African-American; he spoke against holding all Muslims guilty of the actions of Al Qaeda; his wife was a librarian not a former “model”, whom he respected; he was devoted to his children. He launched a program, PEPFAR, to help combat AIDS worldwide and created Medicare Part D.

I detested him, but, unlike TFG, he was not a sociopath or innately evil or a grifter.