Is that last point about the media true though? I was still pretty young, but my recollection was that in general the media was pretty tough on Bush in his second term.
Bush didn’t start taking real consistent heat until like 2006. 5 years in to patriot act and 3 years in to the Iraq War. Abu Gharib was a big deal but John Yoo is still teaching law, Dick Cheney is still roaming around. And of course Bush himself is pretty much completely forgiven for all sins.
As for sys, yeah I know you disagree, but I wish you would just say specifically what you think about it.
Bush foreign policy-
Let Saudis off the hook for 9/11, patriot act, failed coup in Venezuela, Iraq and the many lies before and during and the incredible horrors that killed maybe as many as one million Iraqis, torture, rendition, the systematic expansion of nsa, drone warfare. As much as dax tries to put all that on Obama (who deserves tons of criticism and anyone can find where I give him plenty), the system was created by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld. Just unquestionably a worse legacy than Trump, not close.
Trump—
Withdrew from Iran nuclear deal, failed coup in Venezuela, got in to a dick measuring contest with rocket man then held two summits and looked like he might actually get a deal, Trump/Kushner may have given nuclear secrets to Saudis?
On the domestic front
Bush tried to privatize social security and was spectacularly unsuccessful that is worse than trump trying to overturn Obamacare.
Supreme Court trump has unquestionably a worse legacy and a lot of that is on McConnell.
As far as January 6, it is genuinely bad, of course. But ultimately it was not meaningful and Bush v Gore is right there so I have to say it is a draw. Both really bad farces and damaging to our democracy!
