• ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    At that point people see the winner as an illegitimate tyrant that rules over them

    You’d think so but Americans love Bush now even though he stole the 2000 election

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      Americans love Bush now

      Especially the Democrats, weirdly enough. When he was in power, they basically considered him a dumb redneck (who grew up in New England and went to Yale), and they were constantly bemoaning the fact that his stupidity and his rhetoric were alienating important American allies. Now Bush seems to have gone through a Marvel-esque redemption arc, and the east coast establishment simply loves him – he’s the grand old senior statesman of our time. Simply not being Donald Trump is apparently the bar we’ve established for wise statecraft.

      Seeing the Starbucks-drinking libs go from “Bush is the worst president in the history of America,” and “He’s a right-wing extremist who needs to be assassinated” to “let’s applaud this loveable old man who made some mistakes, but was basically a welfare state leftist all along” has been pretty surreal.

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      Yea, I was dumbstruck when a family member said that Bush is cleaning up his legacy by saying Trump is mean. They used to hate George Bush and the Iraq War, now they just wanna see “Drumpf” behind bars and couldn’t care less about other Republicans