I recall Bush being constantly vilified by the left for having a tiny intellect, for constantly making gaffes like "is our children learning", for the Iraq war (he's a war criminal etc), for drone strikes, for supporting torture, for not caring about the environment at all - especially the shock when a simple minded Texan oilman won out over intellectual climate change activist Al Gore.

There were many people not just in the USA but around the world who felt they could not speak up in support of Bush, outside of rural America.

Seems like time is erasing or distorting these memories. I remember him being just as hated as Trump is today.