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b_b · 986 days ago · link · · parent · post: G.W. Bush accidentally condemns “unjustifiable and brutal” invasion of Iraq
Up until the election debacle I tried to argue a number of times that W was a worse president than Trump. Since Trump lowered to bar all the way to coup, he ultimately gets the slot, but it wasn't at all clear to me until the end.
See, and from my perspective I knew immediately that Trump had the potential to eclipse the ever-loving shit out of GWB. My blind spot was forgetting that not everyone else was acquainted with Trump going back to Spy Magazine. The thing about GWB is he was a front for a bunch of soulless back-room neocons. The thing about Trump is he was a front for a bunch of soulless back-room foreign oligarchs, and even they couldn't keep him under control.