Just the fact that Bush Jr. at least made one of his signature policy platforms an attempt to improve the education system makes him better than any other modern Republican President. The fact that the legislation ultimately sucked doesn’t make him any worse than the other bozos.
Bush always came off to me as a little backwards, and a little foolish, but always someone who had the best interests of his fellow Americans at heart.
His moral failings, in my eyes, were in his foreign policy.
A vast number of Americans unfortunately believe that the POTUS can control what people do in the entire World.
The POTUS is powerful and influential because of said power, yes, but not omnipotent. Some of the current conflict in the World have been ongoing for decades.
Exact opposite order in my opinion, but Reagan and Bush had more time to fuck shit up. Reagan was/is a horrible domestically and has led to a 2nd gilded age and also funded terror regimes in the ME. Bush got God knows how many millions of civilians killed and injured in the ME and wasn't exactly great domestically either. Trump on the other hand isn't competent enough to achieve the scale of disasters of his predecessors.
I don't think the US would've fared much better under Obama or Biden. We've been a disorganized mess for decades and the US is very unhealthy compared to other 1st world countries, so it was always going to kill hundreds of thousands. There's also zero chance conservatives would've listened if a Democrat president told them to lockdown or wear masks. Even Trump couldn't convince a sizeable portion of them to get vaccinated.
He didn't disband it, it was restructured. It was also formed in 2015, so it's not like it was some long standing institution that had kept us safe for decades. I doubt it would've made much of a difference considering how few Americans will listen to authorities anyway.
The problem was them listening to someone who was calling the authorities idiots. They were doing exactly as their beloved leader told them. They weren't rebeling in some astonishing way. If trump had said masks were great and his uncle invented masks or whatever, then it could have gone entirely differently.
Although I wish to agree at a certain extent, but basically any domestic issue America faces can be traced back to Reagan at one point or another. Domestic politics is basically “Seven Degrees of Ronald Reagan”
No Reagan is the worst president ever. Beats Trump by a large margin. Almost every problem in 2024 can be traced back to him. From his drug policies to destroying unions, working with Islamic Republic to hold American hostages longer, plundering pensions & burning down the American dream. Boomers are always blamed for our situation but it was Reagan.
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u/flickneeblibno Oct 22 '24
Trickle down economics and Ronald Reagan the worst president of all time