While all of that is valid, I'm not convinced Kamala wouldn't have done similar or worse if put in the same circumstance.
Its why these comparisons, especially ones with long history, aren't really useful beyond hyperbole. Because we only get one shot at each event and any comparison is purely speculative from there.
Like, Bush wasn't a very good president but even the best among them probably wouldn't have handled 9/11 in a way anyone would consider "well."
There's a big difference between having an event befall you, and fucking causing it.
I never thought of it, but I can scarcely imagine what Trump would have done if he ran for president in 2000 and won. I doubt he would have invaded Iraq, but I'd think Afghanistan would have gone differently, and the level of violence would have been prepared to use would have been fucking startling if the strikes on Syria were any indication.
There's a big difference between having an event befall you, and fucking causing it.
There is, but the point is that we can never know because we only have one president at a time reacting to them. Trump might have bungled it even worse than Bush for all we could know because he wasn't part of the Uniparty and was allowed to fail with no deeper objective. I doubt it, but its possible. Harris might have made reparations happen immediately and literally caused a genocide.
Its just a poor comparison system all around if we leave the hyperbole of "she is the worst ever" and try to factually think about it.
While all of that is valid, I'm not convinced Kamala wouldn't have done similar or worse if put in the same circumstance.
Its why these comparisons, especially ones with long history, aren't really useful beyond hyperbole. Because we only get one shot at each event and any comparison is purely speculative from there.
Like, Bush wasn't a very good president but even the best among them probably wouldn't have handled 9/11 in a way anyone would consider "well."
There's a big difference between having an event befall you, and fucking causing it.
I never thought of it, but I can scarcely imagine what Trump would have done if he ran for president in 2000 and won. I doubt he would have invaded Iraq, but I'd think Afghanistan would have gone differently, and the level of violence would have been prepared to use would have been fucking startling if the strikes on Syria were any indication.
There is, but the point is that we can never know because we only have one president at a time reacting to them. Trump might have bungled it even worse than Bush for all we could know because he wasn't part of the Uniparty and was allowed to fail with no deeper objective. I doubt it, but its possible. Harris might have made reparations happen immediately and literally caused a genocide.
Its just a poor comparison system all around if we leave the hyperbole of "she is the worst ever" and try to factually think about it.
It's always the case to try and make those kinds of direct comparisons, but I think it's an interesting thought exercise.