• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Not to this degree, and they hid it better with some good deeds and human decency.

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      15 hours ago

      Yeah. George Bush may be a war criminal, but at least he did a ton of work fighting HIV in Africa. Donnie has no redeemable qualities as far as I can measure

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    15 hours ago

    I believe Carter was pretty decent comparatively speaking, which is why he lost the second time around. Could be wrong because I didn’t really understand shit back then.

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      He didn’t understand how to navigate the DC political machine. A lot of factors like the oil shortages and the hostage crisis were largely out of his control, but his inability to get his agenda through congress was definitely his problem.

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        10 hours ago

        I wouldn’t go so far as “terrible” considering he did manage to give us the ACA, but “extremely disappointing” - especially with regard to how he dealt with the Republican opposition in the Senate - I can absolutely get behind. Just the fact he let McConnell railroad him on the Supreme Court pick alone totally set up the shitshow we have today, and continues to piss me off. It’s very representative of why Democrats are considered merely “Republicans Lite.”