George W Bush paved the way for Trump - to rehabilitate him is appalling

[JHB]

15. Stop me if you've heard this one...

A guy swaggers into office on a thin electoral win/popular loss and treats it as if he had an overwhelming mandate to push extremely partisan policies.

A guy and his team who came in with unbridled contempt for their predecessor, thought they new everything, were warned about specific threats, derisively ignored those warnings, cut resources and personnel to those areas, and then got caught flatfooted by the very thing they were warned about.

A guy who normalizes things we used to prosecute as war crimes.

A guy who, after his lies have become obviously, undeniably exposed as untrue, simply engages in Soviet-grade erasure & rewrites of history.

And whose party occasionally burps some objection, but in the end, obediently falls into line. Always. Nobody ever balks and breaks. At least, not while they're in office and actually capable of doing something concrete (and after that, what does it really matter?).