What issue was more polarizing

[OSR stands with Israel]

I would say Iraq by a little bit

[Cold War Liberal]

Depends on if you mean Iraq in 2003 or Iraq in, like, 2007. Iraq in 2003 was probably* less polarizing than Trump's immigration policy is today, but Iraq circa 2007 was more polarizing.

*I have limited memory of the time, so I'm going off poll numbers and anecdotes

[Torie]

I think the above is about right. What got polarizing was when the US found itself in the middle of a civil war in Iraq that the invasion unleashed.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Social Media not being that prominent (especially for politics) during the Bush era probably kept Iraq from being even more polarizing than it is now. If Social Media was as prominent back then as it is now than the 2004 election and Bush 2nd term would make the 2016 election and Trump's Presidency look like nothing in terms of polarization.

[Blue3]

Iraq by a lot, especially in 2006-2007.

[Confused Democrat]

If Social Media was as prominent back then as it is now than the 2004 election and Bush 2nd term would make the 2016 election and Trump's Presidency look like nothing in terms of polarization.

Color me very skeptical of this claim.

Trump, for the most part, is executing a pretty cookie cutter GOP agenda. It's his deranged personality that's really inflaming the polarization in America.

[IceSpear]

Iraq was more polarizing during its most polarizing moments. But overall it was probably less polarizing, due to the fact that it went from the vast majority supporting it initially to the vast majority opposing it in the end.

[Peanut]

Iraq by a lot, especially in 2006-2007.

[darklordoftech]

Iraq was just seen as poor judgement on Bush's part and much of the public was apathetic about it, while Trump is seen as evil.

[dead0man]

If Social Media was as prominent back then as it is now than the 2004 election and Bush 2nd term would make the 2016 election and Trump's Presidency look like nothing in terms of polarization.

Color me very skeptical of this claim.

Trump, for the most part, is executing a pretty cookie cutter GOP agenda.

Tariffs (and other protectionist bullsh**t) are part of a cookie cutter GOP agenda?  Since when?

[IceSpear]

Iraq was more "polarizing" even when the invasion began and something like two out of three Americans supported it.

I guess that we're probably past the point where the median poster here can remember what it was like to be against the war in early 2003. The "intellectual dark web" or whatever has nothing on the invasion's earliest opponents.

I guess it depends on your definition of polarizing. If 99.9% of the world believes the sky is blue but 0.1% vehemently believes it is green, is that issue polarizing? Or does there have to be a roughly equal distribution to qualify for the title?

[Progressive Pessimist]

Immigration, because the populace actually came to their sense eventually on the Iraq War. Immigration still continues to have two sets of facts for people on opposite sides of the debate.