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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by jdhn on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:33AM (#23790837)
I don't see how this is an unrealistic scenario. The rehabilitation of George Bush's image happened faster than I ever thought it would. In a decade he (Bush) went from a despised president who got us involved in 2 major wars, eroded our civil liberties, and oversaw an almost unprecendented economic bust to some loveable goof who paints pictures, has trouble putting on a poncho, pals around with Ellen, and, most recently, has been praised for being skeptical of a second Trump term.
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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by chrononaut on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:36AM (#23790861)
Can you expand upon what audience you are referring to in context of the "rehabilitation of George Bush"? Political scientists have remained pretty consistent on his image over the last 20 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_preside...
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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by jdhn on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:39AM (#23790877)
Audience means online communities that I frequent, which is primarily Reddit.
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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by throwaway0a5e on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:48AM (#23791419)
People tend to be nostalgic for the years soon after their birth because to them it seems like a time when everything seemed simple because they were too young to be aware of the world.

Guess which age group has an outsize influence on Reddit?

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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by freshpots on Friday July 10, 2020 @09:35AM (#23791312)
The average person looks back quite fondly on him in retrospect thanks to the Trump Crime Administration. Even though there are many things Bush has done that were far worse like the Iraq war.
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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by blaser-waffle on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:14AM (#23791659)
No one thinks he was good. He and his cronies did immeasurable damage to US prestige and treasury.

But he wasn't openly in league with hostile powers, wasn't blatantly corrupt, and didn't utterly meltdown when faced with a crisis. Arguably, this is because Chaney and other Neo-Cons were calling the shots, but things seemed mostly stable.

Trump is all of those negatives but without the veneer of good faith and competency.

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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by ta17711771 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:14PM (#23816190)
Saudi Arabia...?
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Re:USA Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Memb... by ardy42 on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:01AM (#23791521)
> I don't see how this is an unrealistic scenario. The rehabilitation of George Bush's image happened faster than I ever thought it would.

Trump isn't going to be rehabilitated like Bush. Politics aside, George Bush seems like a genuinely decent guy at a personal level. Trump, on the other hand, is a nasty, selfish bully; he always has been one, and he always will be one. As long as he remains alive, he will constantly remind America if his nature.

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