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Originally Posted by rubecube
There are ample examples of the Bush administration skirting U.S. law to enrich themselves and the people around them. I don't like Trump, but let's not start romanticizing one of the most murderous and ethically bankrupt regimes in U.S. history.
Trump could spend 3 terms in office and would have trouble accumulating a third of the body count and geopolitical strife that the Bush admin is responsible for.
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You have to put Trump's term in context, and looking at Project 2025 will help you understand what happened during his term. Trump's body count is lower only because the bureaucrats around him stopped him from doing the craziest ####. He wanted to turn the military against Americans and was stopped by staff. He wanted to use nuclear weapons and was stopped by staff. That's why Project 2025 re-introduces schedule F so they can get rid of all those people.
Trump started with his transition team not realizing that they had to staff many roles in the government. They thought that they could inherit the Obama staff. It took them years to figure out how to truly get their agenda done.
You could also probably successfully argue that what he and McConnell did to the judiciary laid the ground work for autocratic rule. Nevermind his incompetence around Covid and how many deaths can be attributed to his mismanagement of that, though that is harder to directly correlate.