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That’s all very well but contrary to Bush’s claims ISIS was in fact destroyed under the Trump Administration. That tells you something about the deep structures of order in American government. Trump and the response of his enemies did bring chaos, but to the ceremonial function of the presidency, not the functions of government.

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Yeah I don't think Trump was terrible at foreign policy, it's more that he made broad segments of the GOP electorate extremely comfortable with lying and conspiracy theories and grifting.

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Ok, but Bush was making an implicit claim there about the relationship between Trumpian discourse / public political discourse and actual policy which ended up not being true in that case.

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It was more true in regards to domestic policy. Trump kind of fucked up everything but the 2017 tax cut and operation warp speed. This was largely caused by his poor people management skills and his undisciplined alienation of e.g. McCain

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