We cannot let Trump become worse than Bush.

[Oneironaut]

Of course, there’s still time, but with Bush we had:

- The Iraq War, which killed millions of people
- Mercenaries running around shooting people in New Orleans. The President’s mother felt that they were better off this way.
- High profile Liberals being blackballed from their positions because they only disagreed with the Iraq War. You were either “with them or against them,” and free thought was heavily discouraged in favor of rigorously-enforced group-think.
- The media was totally in the tank for Bush, and made its mission spouting cartoonish patriotic platitudes while negatively stereotyping all Liberals.
- The oxymoronic “Patriot Act”
- “Mission Accomplished”
- Dick Cheney and his thirst for never-ending war
- An administration that would have invaded Iran next, had there not been such war weariness
- The prospect of gay marriage looked bleak
- Gay people were literally not allowed in our military. They had to keep quiet, almost like criminals
- A bunch of other stuff that was equally as terrible. Too many things to list.

I know it’s only been over a year, but we will get through this. Not to minimize Trump, but we’ve gone through this and worse before. Now is not the time to fight over petty issues (not that you can’t make your opinion known!) - a united front will minimize the damage Trump and his cronies can do.

We came so far in 8 years, but we’re falling into the abyss again. I’m confident we can get through this, but we need to start rallying now. It’s already 2018!

[bettyellen]

1. If you're not a woman. Or POC maybe. But to the Dem base, he's horrid.

Sick of hearing he’s not so bad from people exempted from his hatred.

[Oneironaut]

5. Good thing I never said Trump is "not so bad."

He can easily become much worse than Bush. We can’t let it get to that point.

[bettyellen]

10. He already is, if you're a woman losing her rights or a life endangered

POC. There’s nothing like losing your liberty and safety being ignored because.... why is that? Oh yeah, not your problem.

[Oneironaut]

15. I'm LGBT, so I would probably be first in line for the Pence express.

A little over the top, perhaps, but Pence looks like he’s in a perpetual state of bloodlust. It’s those eyes...

[bettyellen]

18. Is this a comment on Trump? He hasn't had any success harming LGBT but please do go on. When you

the hate speech coming directly out of the Oval Office give me a call. Pence my patootey.

[Oneironaut]

21. You're right. He has only been making transpeople his punching bag since he first started.

You might want to read this if you’re serious:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/22/16905658/trump-lgbtq-anniversary

I truly hope you are not being serious, or maybe just forgot.

[bettyellen]

25. He's not caused nearly the huge denial of reproductive rights or endangered LBGT citizens with hate

speech. As the article you cited notes, most of his actions have had no success and he never demonizes them as he does POC. Women are having their rights to their physical bodies taken away and you’ve suffered nothing remotely comparable.

[Oneironaut]

28. No offense, but that's absurd. There is an ongoing campaign to ban transgender people from

the military, and deny them access to public bathrooms. Don’t kid yourself - both fights aren’t over.

Furthermore, I have no desire to get into a “he demonizes us more!” debate. That’s the high of absurdity.
None of it is ok, and all of it is vile.

Please understand that Trump has been an absolute disaster for LGBT rights - especially for transpeople. I’m happy Trump has had astounding failures in trying to oppress the LGBT community, but he’s had some success as well. The worst part is both his normalization of hate and support for candidates who want to erase us as human beings. It doesn’t matter if he failed - the psychological impact should not be ignored.

It is as commonplace for the LGBT community to be lectured by others on why their problems aren’t real as it is for women to be lectured on how their problems aren’t real.

[bettyellen]

29. His normalization of hate has been completely directed at others.

As the article you cited says, he’s kept his trap shut about LGBT. And the pols he supports? Same shit as every other GOPer I’m afraid.

[EffieBlack]

2. Um, no.

[Oneironaut]

6. K...

[beachbum bob]

3. Bush did not dissemble America...he did horrid things but trump is

10x worse

[Oneironaut]

4. Time will tell, I suppose

Hope we don’t let it get that that point

[unblock]

8. he lied us into war!

and he lied about the tax cut and the budget, claiming a surplus would be damaging and claiming we had more than enough for the tax cut and plenty left over. all lies.

[smirkymonkey]

22. I agree. Trump is already 10x worse and he has only been in office a year

and a half.

[unblock]

7. hmm, a pile of damp, decaying dead skunks; or a giant vat of bodily waste and sewage in the hot sun?

which smells worst?

[Hoyt]

9. trump is much worse. bush's warmongering was deplorable, but he didn't deport immigrants and

he did not stand in the way of the Medicare drug program which is probably the biggest positive change in Medicare in 3 decades. Prior to that, the elderly had no Medicare coverage for prescription drugs.

So bush did accomplish a few things. Other than the war and 9/11, bush's biggest problem was missed opportunities, including not heading off the big recession.

trump is much worse.

[grantcart]

11. can you imagine if 9/11 happened under Trump

We would be dropping nuclear bombs within 72 hours

Trump is 10 times worse than Bush

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

19. Thanks. Now I've got something else to lose sleep over.

You think Donnie Two Scoops wants to be a dictator like the strong men he so admires? Give him an excuse -- any excuse -- to suspend the rule of law and institute martial law and he'll be Leader for Life. Fortunately, with all the Big Macs and KFC he eats, that won't be too long, but still...

I'm in the LIHOP camp as far as 9-11 is concerned, but if something similar happened now I'd definitely be among the MIHOP believers.

[apnu]

12. Sorry Mate he already is.

And we aren't at the Midterms.

His drone killing is up 500%
His policies are 1000% more regressive than any of W's wet dreams
The bullshit out of his mouth, DAILY, is more than "Mission Accomplished"
He's got Bolton the next generation Cheney
He's a racist, something, oddly, W was not.
Every minority, not just GLBTQ, is living in fear for their lives, double if you are GLBTQ and not white.
He attacks the media on a daily basis.
He's running an active (if poor) propaganda campaign that's exactly from the Nazi play book.
He attacks the judiciary daily
He is openly taking millions in bribes (See all the Cohen and Mnunchin stuff)
He is openly profiting from the Oval Office by moving official US business and functions to his private hotels and resorts, to say nothing about using the power of the office to enrich himself and his children.

Trump is past our worst W nightmares. W is Mr. Rogers nice by comparison.

[smirkymonkey]

23. +1000

This!

[elleng]

13. He already has,

in ways, of course, we'd never imagined, especially the effect on Americans.

[Oneironaut]

16. True. I feel like it's the Odyssey, where you dodge one monster, only to land on another's island.

[nini]

14. I don't remember W conspiring with a foreign hostile govt to dismantle our democracy

I'm not so sure we've dealt with a crisis like this before which is magnified because of a congress who is just as bad.

[Oneironaut]

17. He was just dumb enough to destroy us from within.

Clinton left the US a massive juggernaut. Now, the termites are feasting.

I agree, though, that Trump is a truly unique crisis.

[northremembers]

24. It's hard to say

W was the one who said, "I have looked into Putin's eyes and seen my own soul." Bush let Bin Laden get away and used Al Qaida as an excuse to cut taxes, deregulate Wall Street, deregulate fracking, bailout Enron (that one didn't go so well), and invade Iraq. I might be more inclined to say they all suck (Trump, Bush I, Bush II, Reagan, and Nixon). I would not agree with the idea that the Republicans now are so much worse than the Republicans then. They were right about ending slavery. They've been the bad guys ever since.

I look at it as the Republicans are going to do a lot of damage. We can slow them down, but we are going to have to rebuild our democracy which was already on the ropes before Trump, thanks to the last 24 years of Republican scorched earth politics. Whatever agencies he closes we have to replace them with new ones geared towards the goals we set for our country. Whatever freedoms he abolishes we have to replace them with more inclusive ones. We know the Republicans will never be partners and will do everything they can to hold us back. That's all they ever did. We still got social security, legal labor unions, victory over fascism, NATO, the UN, the moon landing, and gay rights. This is only the end if we don't look forward.

[MariaCSR]

20. He's already worse than Bush.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. He's already worse. This is not a defense of Bush, but

Trump has done much more to undermine the foundations of our government than Bush ever even thought of. Bush abused the government but Trump is destroying it.

[Clarity2]

27. Seriously?

Trump is an asset for a hostile government that hacked our election.
He is a money laundering mobster who would pull a coup if he could get away with it, who would attempt to rig the election again at any cost...argh, I could go on, but that should be enough of a comparison.