Even though I was never a fan of the Iraq war, I never truly appreciated at the time just how delusional that photo op was.

Democrat’s anger back then seemed justified. However, it’s surprised me at how fluid the Democrat’s beliefs became over time. I grew up hearing Democrats call for Bush to be tried for war crimes, not just over how he clearly lied about the pretense for war, but also over the allegations of torture and the bombing of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Then when he makes the most modest of snubs of Trump in 2016, all while Trump campaigns on ending wasteful foreign wars and spending those trillions domestically, Democrats start to fawn over Bush and reminisce over the good old days of the Bush era. And then when Trump actually starts to bring more troops home, something they cheered for when Obama did it, thy lambast Trump as “abandoning our allies”. Uh, no, communist and al Qaeda terrorists in Syria and northern Iraq fighting Turkey, our actual ally, are not our allies.

I was a Democrat during the Bush era, and I hated the guy and his bullshit wars. Now that I’m a Republican, largely because Democrats have shifted so far to the left, I still hate the guy and his bullshit wars. His neo-con foreign adventurism was arguably the single biggest blow to the GOP and helped bring a surge of Democrats into power that would last for almost a decade, causing massive social harm to our country and, ironically, no end to the actual wars Democrats campaigned against. It was, of all people, Trump, who finally ordered the end of the Afghanistan war.

Maybe that’s what Democrats miss most about Bush. Being such an incompetent leader that he made it easy for them to win elections.