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Originally Posted by Regorium
Bush wasn't even that bad. He was a very solid GOP candidate that resonates with the GOP. He did GOP things that he said he would do.
Trump is doing things because he believes in aliens and conspiracies, and his whole bid is a publicity stunt. Half of the things he says are based on vengeance, and the other half is nonsensical.
They're not even close to comparable.
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I agree that there's no comparison of Trump vs. Bush.
In my opinion the hyper-partisanship in US politics really took off in the 90's after Clinton defeated Bush Sr. and the neo-cons started to exert control of the GOP, led by Gingrich. Prior to that, any candidate that had a history of draft dodging, drunk driving, cocaine use and was generally ill-prepared for the job wouldn't have made it past the primaries. But Bush had a lot of money behind him and eventually the whole GOP machine. There was certainly partisanship prior to that but it wasn't the team sport team mentality it became in the 90's. It could be argued that the new hyper-partisanship resulted in Bush winning in 2000 with the whole Florida fiasco.
Don't get me wrong. If my choice was W. or Trump I'd vote Bush every time. But I think the point that was being made is that many voters base their votes on either little information, no information or misinformation. W. was used as an example of that. I think there's something to that.