Bush has the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis--at the least--and thousands of American troops on his hands, via the Iraq War. A war that was illegal and was based entirely on lies.
Bush is also responsible for pushing the Patriot act, illegally wiretapping our communications, a pathetic response to Hurricane Katrina, Medicare part D, Guantanamo Bay, allowing torture, attempting to privatize social security, Bush Tax cuts, deregulation of financial industry that contributed to the Great Recession, and sooooo much more.
On top of all that, he turned Afghanistan into a perpetual conflict with no end in sight and had a foreign policy that utterly destabilized an entire region and resulted in the eventual rise of radical extremists like ISIS.
It's also funny to hear Bush talking about a rise in divisiveness, when his administration rode the "with us or against us" wave that was happening during early parts of the Iraq War. Calling out the war when it first started (and prior to its start) resulted in being called unpatriotic or worse.
Speaking of North Korea, you can thank the Bush administration for basically ruining whatever progress the Clinton administration made in improving relations between both nations, via the "Axis of Evil" line and the Iraq War itself. Soon after the war started, North Korea goes for the nukes and directly mentioned the Iraq War as a reason why they went there.
Bush being a "nice" or "descent" person at heart is ultimately immaterial and completely irrelevant. The fact is this man's policies resulted in a tremendously amount of death and harm, for both Americans and foreigners.
To say that Bush's years weren't "that bad" because Trump is an arrogant, racist, foul, incompetent deranged a$$hole risks overlooking just how foul the Bush years were. Bush has a shyt ton of bodies in his name. Trump may very well top that during his term (and I'm confident he will the longer he stays as president), but he is not there yet.
This bizarre rehabbing of Bush is straight up nuts. Pure insanity and a revelation that, to a lot of people, they don't really have much a problem with what Trump is doing, but how he is doing it.
Both Trump and Bush are foul as hell and are easily the worst presidents in the modern era. There's nothing good about either of those two presidencies.
