And perhaps not living to see the end of it. Or beginning.

It was different in the Bush years. Bush was able to invade Iraq because 9/11 was still fresh and the American people were angry and wanting to kick some asses as long as they were Middle Eastern asses. Today the American people are quite weary war, or it's even just ignored. Oh, we're bombing someone, business as usual. Trump is way less popular than Bush, and also the Baby Boomers will start dying off soon. Trumpie does not stand a chance.

You're judging the war in Iraq by today's standards. In 2004 it was very popular, and gave W the edge. It was a very strange period. We ate freedom fries with our burgers, made coffee in freedom presses, and would visit the Eiffel Tower in the Freedom.

Yeah, the first 5 or 6 years of the Iraq war were the darkest, most hopeless times I've ever experienced in American politics, far worse than today.

If all of the Democrats fell in line behind trump then 2017 would be comparable to 2003 but so far only a dozen or so have.

Not to undersell how fucked up and dangerous things are now, but at least there's a general awareness of it.

Nobody on the major cable news networks would have kept their jobs for more than a week if they'd been even a tiny fraction as critical of Bush as they are of Trump. People were getting fired for even questioning the strategic wisdom of the war,much less the real politics and morality of it.

I travelled in pretty left leaning circles back then and if you suggested that the USA might be holding innocent people at Guantanamo, for example, people would look at you the way we look at Infowars believers today. And this was in Cambridge, I can't imagine how bad it must have been in a lot of places.

Reagan was still the worst of the bunch, though. We're still living in Reagan's America.

There's a lot of gossip coming out that he's completely lost it because of the raid on his lawyer's office and this could be him lashing out.

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