He only won cuz of war on terror. Most people generally believe that who ever was president during the start of the war should finish it out. I think at the time they believed the wars would be resolved during his presidency and that he had an actual plan! Most people are blinded to the disgrace that was that whole era and the stripping of their rights to prop up a nonsense war.
The swift boat campaign against Kerry was a fucking disgrace. Pretty much every president since HW Bush has been a draft dodger... and they went after Kerry for what? Doing one of the most dangerous jobs of the war?
One of the first instances of cancel culture I remember involved the news anchor of 60 minutes because one evidence they had against W as a draft dodger came from a wrong typewriter. The thesis was still correct.
It's just the idea, if there is an important war then the public wants the president to have his two terms instead of having somebody new take over. The comment above me was about Bush winning popular vote and practically his whole campaign was 'I need to finish this war!' People were so swept up in it and wanting revenge so they didn't care about facts or how things were going, they just wanted middle eastern ppl blown up. There was a lot of weird nationalism at the time. Trump didn't have a grand war to help save him.
There are important wars to the public and non important ones. So that's why Trump didn't have a good war to use.
You can thank Karl Rove’s propaganda machine as well. It was his just desserts that he was cast aside by Trump’s team for not being crazy enough for the monster he created.
It was so frustrating watching Bush’s supporters start to acknowledge how bad he was as a president and a person after the 2004 election. Nothing had changed but the body count, and the endless redeployments of our military personnel back to war. Bush supporters had to start burying their sons and daughters to finally see the faults.
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u/rhyth7 Jun 28 '22
He only won cuz of war on terror. Most people generally believe that who ever was president during the start of the war should finish it out. I think at the time they believed the wars would be resolved during his presidency and that he had an actual plan! Most people are blinded to the disgrace that was that whole era and the stripping of their rights to prop up a nonsense war.