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by tamana 3813 days ago
Nearly ño one on the left ever accused Bush of purposely destroying the country. The accusation we a mix of incompetent mismanagement and cynical exploitation for profit.
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Really, it comes down to what you mean by "America"; my understanding of the "[president] is destroying America" crowd is that they're commenting more on destroying America's "America-ness" than actually dismantling the nation.

Right now, on the right, you have people making claims that Obama is a closet authoritarian bent on dismantling the constitution, taking away our guns, and forcing your small town to not have a nativity scene afront their courthouse this year. Turning back the clock by a decade, those sorts of claims are not very far off from the claims of people (like a rather-younger me) on the left that Bush (or, perhaps, Cheney) were intentionally using the September 11th attacks as a tool for stripping us of our constitutional freedoms. Although obviously not a majority opinion; those sorts of views were definitely not uncommon during the Bush era.

That is true the left did not accuse Bush or purposely trying to destroy the country. But they did accuse that of Cheney and some others.