This guy stole his first Presidential election, started a $2 trillion war that created ISIS, ran against SSM for his second Presidential election, and then completely botched Katrina. Why does anyone take him seriously here?
I think I actually have an answer.
A lot of people here are 21 and younger. My age, to be more specific. I grew up with George W. Bush. As much as the rational part of me knows how atrocious his Presidency was, George W. Bush slots nicely into the nostalgic part of my memories, alongside Pokemon Ruby version and the Nintendo Gamecube. Combine that with his admittedly warm personality and you get a comforting figure in a very uncomfortable era. If you're younger, you might not even have that many memories of the Bush Presidency. And he does have that same warm personality that he used to lie us into war.
I'm almost 24 and I remember having a bad feeling after the Supreme Court Declared Dubya the winner and I was proven right, he was atrocious. I remember the run up to the Iraq War in late 2002 and early 2003 and remember that it didn't make sense that we were invading Iraq when Iraq didn't attack us. I remember the instability in the Middle East and Oil Prices sky rocketing, and being through the roof by the fall of 2008 (I was learning to drive that summer and let's just say I didn't get a lot of practice in because Gas Prices were too high). I remember how badly he botched Katrina and I really started to begin to understand economics and economic policy during the financial crisis in 2008 and remember fearing another depression. Granted, I have some fond memories from the 2000s as well (mostly from television and movies, and my family life was more stable), but George W. Bush doesn't tie into them at all.
