George W. Bush: The 43rd President, 2001-2009

“George W. Bush was a pivotal president. We had September 11 on his watch, of course, which was a big moment in our country’s history. Then the immediate response to that, where we had unity as a country: Okay, we’ve been attacked, we’re bonding together. Then we go into Afghanistan, transition into the Iraq initiative, it doesn’t go well and it tears the country apart. The aftermath of the Iraq War hardened and accelerated America’s dysfunction and partisanship, and it just keeps getting worse. Then Obama inflamed it because he angered a lot of people. A lot of the country wasn’t ready for him to be president, and then, of course, Trump turbocharged it.” Read more...

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