# The collapse started with George W.
Date: 2025-08-25

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The collapse started with George W. Bush who was equally as insane and incompetent as Trump and also elected twice.

In exit polls Bush tied with Kerry with *college graduates*! That's right even after a disastrous first term that included the Bush tax cuts, starting the Iraq war, and No Child Left Behind, half of American college educated voters asked for seconds.

Electing Bush for a second term is the real moment of no return for America as it says a president can do literally anything and still be reelected.

Trump is merely a continuation of the crazy lack of accountability that Bush had already pioneered. Or put another way America collapsed during Bush's first term and have just been living inside the wreckage ever since.