Trump is obviously a worse president than GWB at this point and I don't really see the goal of pretending otherwise except to make some point about how you were into politics before it was cool

Like, the reason many people perceive Trump as worse than Bush as worse than Reagan isn't because people dumber than you "weren't paying attention" back then—it's because the Republican Party is becoming worse!

versus Trump, a noted anti-imperialist https://twitter.com/LibertariaNYC/status/1320776558387318786

This has never struck me as a particularly good measure. Under Trump we can estimate at least at 10x increase in the possibility of complete collapse of democracy and/or nuclear war. The potential casualties compared to GWB are not even comparable. https://twitter.com/samth/status/1320776820057378817

Again I find this to be an almost comically flat idea of what makes for a bad president, like you can simply graph all of human existence on a chart and devise an impervious, quantifiable notion of leadership quality from there https://twitter.com/onlyjustnow/status/1320786943215456257

"If we turn now to the chart of 'deaths caused,' we find Jeffrey Dahmer was empirically 30% more evil than the Boston Strangler."