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TheMikh posted...

The Popo posted...

Bush was a president who had policies I disagreed with and definitely made his share of costly mistakes (Iraq War & Hurricane Katrina response to name two), but I still always got the impression that he was taking actions for what he felt was for the betterment of the country.

Trump uses the presidency for his own personal gain and takes actions that will weaken the country specifically for his own benefit (labeling the media as liars for criticizing him, weakening the COVID response so it doesnt seem like a big deal, deflecting the responsibility from himself to the governors, etc).

Give me 8 more years of Bush over 4 more years of Trump.

for all my grievances about trump domestically, war haunts my conscience unlike anything else - state sanctioned mass murder on my tax dollar

i also have old/childhood friends who are permanently disabled or with spouses that are as a direct result of the wars

I totally appreciate how war is the greater atrocity. And I agree. My counterpoint to the argument at hand though (Bush v Trump) is that Bush was in a position where war was a very viable option on the table. Im not saying it was the right option (taking down the Iraqi regime was very clearly the wrong move), but it was a very viable option in the eyes of many. He had a lot of support for his actions back then.

Regarding attacks on US soil, we thankfully have not had anything close to the magnitude of 9/11 while Trump has been in office. But given everything that Trump has shown up to this point, I feel very secure in my opinion that Trump would have done something equal to or worse than what Bush did.

Additionally, since Im comparing how I believe Trump would have acted in Bushs shoes, given the Bush administrations concerns over potential pandemics, I also 100% believe that he would have handled the COVID pandemic in a much better manner across the board than Trump.
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