About that, the President saying awful things can’t be as bad as our country doing awful things. Under Bush, the enormous tension between what we were told by Bush and his team of experts and what we saw with our eyes eventually broke down as the gap between the two things could not be ignored by most people.
I think we are through the looking glass on rhetoric and I don’t see how we ever go back to Bush/Obama. People just are much less trusting of our institutions and authority and for many good reasons. I know you know this, but the bad part about trump was not the rhetoric.