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Ooooohh I wish we could go back to the time before Drumpf said the magic Republican trigger words to activate all their MKULTRA fascist marching orders, they used to be so normal before 2016, le sigh
Can't wait in 20 years for them to look at Donald Trump nostalgically and say he had a "charming wit" as God-Emperor Satan wins yet another GOP primary.
Unpopular opinion on Hexbear, but I don’t think Trump will ever get that nostalgic W treatment. W is a special case. The reason W was evil was because Iraq. Liberals in the mid 00s, after the invasion really started going bad for the US, had some vague notion that the invasion was bad. It wasn’t from some principled anti-imperialist or even just anti-war stance. It was largely because it wasn’t quick and easy as promised so it was making America look bad; and liberals just internalized that feel as “Iraq war bad”.
But once W left office and the US wound down quite so direct involvement in Iraq, liberals lost their anger over the war because it wasn’t actually based on anything. Lose your anger over the war, and you lose your reason to hate Bush.
(That said, there were plenty of left liberals who were against the invasion from a principled stance back in 2003. But those kinds of libs aren’t the one who are impressed with W and Michelle Obama sharing candy or whatever, tbf).
I don't think Trump will get the W treatment, but not for the reasons you describe. There was still Afghanistan in W's case, but W was only different from the typical politician in the sense that he leaned into the idea of being a dope to avoid looking like a carpetbagger. Beyond that, W very much comported with what was expected of a typical Republican. Trump is too offensive to liberal sensibilities on a much more visceral level. I really struggle to imagine them ever warming up to him on that basis alone.