George W. Bush Struggles for Relevance with His Legacy Disgraced by MAGA

This is a sad man whose legacy has been eclipsed by MAGA.

Former President George W. Bush recently emerged from hibernation to address the individuals who were sacked from USAID, appearing with luminaries like U2 frontman Bono and former White House occupier Barack Hussein Obama in a whiny video campaign lamenting federal budget cuts.

Bush made the fantastical claim that USAID funding has somehow saved tens of millions of lives across the globe. Apparently appropriating taxpayer funds to promote drag queen shows in Ecuador and give condoms to the Taliban has been a life-and-death matter all this time.

“You’ve showed the great strength of America through your work — and that is your good heart,’’ Bush said. “Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.”

Who could have imagined that Bush was such a humanitarian? He could have fooled the public as his administration exploited (if not orchestrated) the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to propagandize the American people into supporting a war in Iraq that left millions dead, wasted trillions of dollars, left the Constitution in tatters and fully transformed the U.S. from a Constitutional Republic into a Globalist Empire.

Bush likes to emerge from time to time to posture with Obama, Bill Clinton and other globalists to show that he is a stalwart of the pre-Trump status quo back when mainstream politics were more genteel. He is also still desperate to rehabilitate his image. It seems like centuries ago when Bush was the Hitler of the moment, demonized in a similar but not as intense fashion as Trump routinely is today.

When Bush was in office, the leftists acted as if they were anti-war. They opposed the war in Iraq not because of a principled stance against military interventionism, but rather because a Republican was the man in office dropping the bombs. Bush was pilloried for starting a war for oil, for the folly of his infamous “Mission Accomplished” statement, and for the barbaric acts such as torture that were committed by military personnel under his command.

Bush left office with a stained legacy, fumbling what was once predicted to be a permanent Republican majority amidst the jingoistic fervor of Sept. 11 to surrender the country to a shadowy character of dubious origin. Bush had debauched the government so thoroughly that the voters felt it was worth rolling the dice on an enigmatic figure they knew virtually nothing about. The nation is still paying the price for Obama’s reign to this day.

In 2016, the Bush legacy had its chance at redemption. George’s brother Jeb ran for the Republican presidential nomination to redeem the family name. He was in a prime position to right the wrongs of the past and make the corporate oligarchy great again. Jeb had a legitimate chance at becoming the Republican nominee until Donald J. Trump came down the golden escalator. What ensued was an evisceration beyond repair. Jeb became a convenient punching bag for Trump, and his campaign fizzled into oblivion. W has been obsessed with revenge ever since.

George W. Bush is a tragic figure because he must grovel to the same elites who mocked and humiliated him when he was in office. Although he deserved the criticism, the fact that he nestles up to these interests now indicates a total lack of self-respect and dignity. Bush was never anything more than a pawn. He was a stoolie put up by the military-industrial complex and the shadowy operators in his administration – like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz – who were really calling the shots.

This is a sad man whose legacy has been eclipsed by MAGA. Bush is reviled within his own Party and tolerated by his opponents only because they are desperate to cobble together an alliance to undermine Trump’s American revival. He will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in history almost unanimously. The only good thing Bush has going for him is he is likely old enough to escape culpability for his crimes. He deserves to be spending his final days in a 5-x-8 cell or swinging from the gallows for the misery perpetrated on his watch in Iraq.