I'm not sure I'm ready for what's coming the next time around. Probably some manosphere influencer way into eugenics. Yay.

This is juxtaposition, not apologia. There is a scale of awful, and Dubya is objectively on the lesser side relative to the Paedophile President, seditious traitor and inarticulate pissboy that he is. There is no section of the constitution that I know of which he hasn't violated. Dubya was many of the things which the traitor-in-chief is, and that makes the juxtaposition all the more apt. If they were supposed to be comparing a good president, they'd have picked FDR. Instead, they picked one who was generally considered one of the worst until that point to show that, even when you think you've scraped the bottom, someone can still manage to break the bottom of the barrel and scrape the mouldering, fetid carcass of a plague rat off the floor below.

He's certainly not the good guy, but it was definitely a wild time when you thought he was the dumbest president we've ever had, with Cheney giving himself no-bid contracts to enrich himself during that war was peak corruption.

What I come back to when compairing Trump and GWB is that GWB at least seemed to respect the office, Trump shows utter contempt towards it.

Bush's expansion of executive power made someone like trump a "when" not an "if".

The really amazing thing about Trump is that I literally can't find one good thing to say about him. Hitler showed personal bravery in WW1. Stalin was a bank robber. Mao led his troops into battle. No one is saying those guys were anything but monsters, but they had qualities you could respect.

Even comic book villains display some admirable qualities, even if it's only style.

Trump embodies all Seven Deadly Sins, and has invented a few new ones.

He's not. But in comparison he is.

This is what fascists do. They lower the bar so far that you have to change your whole perspective to suit them.

Pointing out that Trump is worse is not saying that Bush was better than we thought.