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Old 03-20-2017, 07:42 PM   #17633
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Re: ** The Trump Thread SAFE SPACE ** (NO Personal Attacks; NO Trolling)

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Originally Posted by ShotgunDMB View Post
I'm 32 years old...I can remember more than 1 Republican presidency...

Eh, don't want to get into a long argument over Bush 43, in my opinion he made the best of some very shitty hands he was dealt. For the most part, he made practical decisions, even some I'm ideologically against such as the bank bailouts.

W was only unpopular into his second term. Had some historically high approval ratings at one point. Won a second term somewhat comfortably. Republicans held all 3 branches of govt under him at one point. Now, if you want to hold the financial crisis against him, thats fine, but it's a bit silly if you know the facts of the situation.

Conservatism isn't dead by any stretch. If fact it's probably more powerful than it's ever been, at least at the state level. Trump isn't a conservative by any stretch, but there's a lot of overlap between populism and conservatism on certain issues.
So you were born in 84 or 85 depending on if your birthday has passed or not. Meaning you were 5-9 years old during first Bush. Sure you had a lot of keen insights and personal memories from those times

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Originally Posted by cazzie34 View Post
Trump is DEFINITELY cognizant of the fact that bush had some historically high approval ratings....He's also very aware of how he got those high approval ratings.
My guess is those ratings were after 9/11?
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