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Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoRemember when the entire world was convinced there was absolutely no way Bush, an idiot, could get re-elected?
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kitnaht@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Nobody thought that at all. Most presidents sitting during outbreaks of war retain their positions. You’d have to have been in a complete echo chamber to believe this stance.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah no, I’m gonna disagree. Being outside of the US at the time, most people did think that. And yes, obviously I’m talking about Jr since Sr didn’t get re-elected. 9/11 was a full three years before the election of his second term.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It was viewed as illegitimate inside the US too. And yeah, I remember, even as a 17yr old at the time, seeing the event happen live and lamenting to my mother that we were going to have another Bush term over it. Historically for America that’s always been the case.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Something like 65% of the population approved of it at first. Meanwhile there were protests in the millions of people around the world against it.