The article reflects on the surprising shift in perceptions of George W. Bush, who has increasingly been seen as a statesman compared to the current chaotic political climate. It references his candid remark about Donald Trump's inauguration speech, indicating a recognition of the bizarre political environment that has emerged since. This change in Bush's image is perceived as troubling, suggesting that it highlights the significant deterioration of norms and realities in American politics.
It's a bad sign of things that, in recent years, George W Bush has somehow transmogrified into some kind of statesman, an embodiment of a time when the only thing wrong with the Republicans was that they were Republicans, but at least they roughly occupied the same reality as the rest of us.
Part of the rehabilitation of Bush has been since he spotted a new era eight years ago when he remarked, after Donald Trump's first inauguration speech: 'That was some weird shit.' And sure enough, weird shit has piled on top of weird shit ever since.
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