How much do members of the opposite party dislike whomever happens to be president? A lot, and the feeling seems to be getting stronger. CONT.
Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth), New York Times
How much do members of the opposite party dislike whomever happens to be president? A lot, and the feeling seems to be getting stronger. CONT.
Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth), New York Times
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Forget who’s the “worst.” G.W. Bush sent us into Afghanistan in response to 9/11, but failed to capture OBL, got sidetracked into Iraq, shattering the uneasy equilibrium in that country with a lack of strategy, knowledge, and forethought that made Iran the real winner of that war, and set up the conditions for the dismemberment of that country and the rise of Islamic extremists. At home, he blew up the deficit with ill-advised tax cuts for the wealthy, and presided over a housing boom that ended in economic disaster with the Crash of 2008. He, not Obama, bailed out Wall Street with no, repeat, no strings attached. I’m sorry, Republicans, but Bush’s presidency was little short of disastrous, both at home and abroad. However history will judge Obama, you have to be ludicrously delusional to think he’s been worse than Bush. Yes, polarization makes all your opponent’s presidents “the worst.” But the follies of Bush won’t ever be washed away by such lazy rationalizations.