[carlmr]

People are bad at thinking in absolutes. Humans always think in relative terms. Our perception of how well the government operates is in relation to how we perceive the change to previous governments. Obama, Bush, Clinton, Old Bush, Reagan all seemed kind of like a natural progression with some ups and downs. Trump is a breaking change . People are noticing it.

I see leftists posting articles about how normal Bush was. Do you remember Bush being Hitler just 15 years ago? I remember. It's all about comparison.

Obama was a scandal free presidency! Do you remember Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize and then proceed to bomb 7 countries? Whatever happened to closing Guantanamo? Enabling the greatest surveillance state ever conceived? That's scandalous.

It's all normal now.

[specialist]

Believe me when I tell you that no one misremembers the Cheney Administration. We just didn't think it could get any worse.