• Muad'DibberOPMA
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    63 years ago

    US politics is almost enforced short term memory loss, democrats have fully rehabilitated bush jr even after he killed a million people in Iraq.

    • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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      53 years ago

      Just you wait: they’ll find a way to rehabilitate Trump.

      • Muad'DibberOPMA
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        63 years ago

        Haha totally. I gotta find that one article from the NYT I think where after Trump bombed Syria, they said something like: “This was his most presidential moment”

        • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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          53 years ago

          It was actually Afghanistan.

          It was when he dropped the supposed “MOAB” and eradicated an entire village and its vicinity. Biggest non-nuclear missile, or one of the biggest. Most of the mainstream media, including the Jacobin, called it “Presidential” or even that it was to be “expected from a Head of State.” Something along those lines. I definitely know that the NYT called it Presidential in several of their articles.

    • @javathunderman@lemmy.ml
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      33 years ago

      Hasn’t the argument mainly been that GWB “wasn’t as bad” as Trump? I don’t think I’ve heard of Democrats actively saying he was a good president, but I could be wrong.

      • Muad'DibberOPMA
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        Here’s a good article on the democrats rehabilitating GWB. It got really big during the election when trump was having spats with the bushes, democrats started defending him a lot, he put out a few videos for “calls for unity”, and he even went on a few liberal talk shows.

        • @javathunderman@lemmy.ml
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          23 years ago

          Interesting. Hopefully the progressive wing doesn’t go down this route - I’m really hoping they’ll be able to push the party to the left.

    • @TeethOrCoat
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      Forget Bush. They’re talking about the PRC’s human rights as though the BLM riots didn’t happen just a few months back. Scratch that. Even back then Pelosi was talking about HK while DC burned.