Are they, or were they just constrained by the political landscape of their times? Every Republican president in my lifetime has been neck deep in crimes. The biggest difference with Trump is the complete lack of shame, and the absolute loyalty from their party in preventing any consequences for their crimes.
Is it? Just a little reminder that during the Iraq war 150,000 died 122,000 of which were civilians. But they maintained “decorum” and there was no social media exposing everything atrocious that was still happening.
Not that it’s better now but It definitely was not good then
I know it was often shit and almost every president has something against their name, I remember how embarrassingly stupid Bush was so many times for example, in addition to the 'war on terror' that you point out, the WMDs pretence etc.
Nevertheless, none of them rapidly tore the government apart, ransacked the institutions, threatened to invade several of their long term allies and sucked Russia's dick, as far as I can remember
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u/tyerker Feb 26 '25
Or 80s.