Let's Not Forget Reagan and Bush Were the Worst

A few weeks ago I tried to remind you people that as a President Ronald Reagan was an absolute monster, and the very reason we got to Trump eventually.

We were already blinded by his natural charisma + another age when it comes to media to see this at the time; Reagan was charming so we were fine with things he kicked off that are still destroying the country today, with no sign of slowing down no matter how destructive they continually prove to be: trickle down economics, welfare shredding, union busting destroying the middle class, the lost war on drugs and the very idea that supporting the government is “un-American”. 

And now with Trump being such a grotesque figure we're just grateful to be done with, public opinion - especially among amnesiac Democrats - is now comprised of hazily thinking of George W. Bush - a decent person who should never have been president but then became one of the worst of all time and a war criminal - as a cozy grandpa painting cozy pictures. Incredibly, Trump both as a person and "leader" was SO repugnant that already we're in a trap of comparing Reagan/Bush/Cheney to him, which of course automatically makes them so much better in comparison:

Having a few slightly human exchanges with Michelle Obama, of course, worked wonders for George W. Bush. Over the past five years, the grotesquery of Bush's presidency has undergone such a thorough rehabilitation that, according to many polls, even a majority of Democrats have a favorable view of the retired war criminal.

Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, coined one of his boss's most famous phrases in an address against affirmative action: "the soft bigotry of low expectations." It is a rich irony that Bush now benefits from that exact form of "soft bigotry" as he is lavished with praise for not being a fascist or a nativist.

There's a real danger in accepting that because Trump was so awful then we must paint Bush et al as the opposite. It's okay to accept the fact that they were all terrible for the country, and anybody like these people should be avoided in the future when it comes to electing president (side note: the odds of this happening are 0%).