Recently, Mr. Bush has been allowed to rehabilitate his image, particularly on Reddit. My belief is that this is happening because of younger generations commenting in a contrarian way on his presidency, perhaps some of which is influenced by the absolute state of the Republican Party today.

For most of those of us who lived through his presidency, it was always clear that Bush was a religious and sexual bigot, but not a racial one.

It was always clear that the evidence for invading Iraq was scant at best. The war was protested by the biggest international collaboration of protesters ever.

Days after 9/11, there were plenty of us ACLU types decrying the USA PATRIOT Act. Many of us felt that Pelosi, Clinton, etc. had few inviolable beliefs about civil rights at that time. Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders voted against it.

Bush was the worst possible president, so I had thought.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 month ago

    Recently, Mr. Bush has been allowed to rehabilitate his image, particularly on Reddit.

    Same shit happened to Bill Gates. Older people like me remember him for the absolute shithead he was in the 80s and 90s. His “open letter to hobbyists” rant was a sign of things to come.

    That’s what these assholes do, they spend all their younger years fucking people over, then wait a generation or two, and then do some “philanthropy” to clean themselves up before they die. It’s gonna happen to Bezos and Musk too I bet.