Will Any Democrat Go On The Record And Explain Republican George H W Bush's Policies Were Horrible

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57. This is the very reason why more discussion is needed.

War crimes in Panama.

Iran-Contra pardons and free reign given to secret operations to destabilize other countries without accountability.

Corruption in defense procurement that the current military budget is still rife with.

Not just the mere fact of Clarence Thomas, but replacing the greatest pro-civil rights justice of all (Thurgood Marshall) with a political hack that personally supervised the gutting of civil rights enforcement through his hostile supervision of primary federal agency charged with this task.

Willie Horton ad - the cynical use of the baldest Nixonian Southern strategy in the wake of the negative impact of Reaganomics on black lives.

Launching the war against Kuwait on MLK's birthday: January 15, 1991.

Embodying the leveraging of diplomatic relationships for personal gain, most clearly embodied by his relationship with the Saudi royal family.

Embodying the worst excesses of a patrician attitude that erects a wall between himself and ordinary people. At least Nixon walked out of the White House and talked to antiwar protesters. No way Bush would have done that.

Unremitting drug war rhetoric, even as cocaine trade profits were being redirected to mysterious sources.

This is all just from memory, without any sourcing. I very much disagree that GHWB was inoffensive, even though there are some additional, or alternative, sordid records that come from the GWB and Trump administrations.

Sometimes I try to stay silent while segregationists and patrician politicians are buried, but people should not be criticized for simply bringing up a person's political record. In fact, more people should be striving to understand such records. Or are we really down for letting false history stand?