Opinion of George W. Bush as a person

[Benjamin Frank]

HP.  A layabout and a liar.

[Benjamin Frank]

George W Bush also presaged the Trump Presidency by demonizing his opponents as unpatriotic,

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/09/opposing-bush-becomes-unpatriotic.html


and by, more importantly, being the first President to wholly embrace 'alternative facts.'

The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."


https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community

One quote of George W. Bush's fits here though, I think, for the Democrats who voted Bush as an FF.  I think that is a clear example of the "soft bigotry of low expectations."

[Benjamin Frank]

his presidency caused more long-term damage than any president since Reagan.

Ronald Reagan was the best president of the modern political era.

I like presidents that don't get dementia. Or f#ck over the poor and middle class with not only policy but an ethos that people on welfare are lazy bums. Or escalate the War on Drugs. Or sell weapons to Iran.

The last two are valid criticisms, but out of curiosity- who do you think was best president of the modern era? I guarantee Reagan ousts them.

I believe the least bad president of the modern era was Obama. And he's no saint either. And I don't want a bunch of sh!t named after him.

I like presidents who don’t add 10 trillion dollars to the national debt. So Obama sure as hell wasn’t the best in my view. Anyways, Reagan is the main reason why we live in the USA and not the ASSR.

Imagine citing the debt to argue that Reagan was a good president

Reagan didn’t increase the debt by 10 trillion.

Using 2020 constant dollars, Reagan increased the debt by about $4 trillion, an average of $500 billion a year.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/

I'm not sure what any of this has to do with George W Bush as a person.