Addicted To Bush 2 May 2026

In the months following the attacks, the nation needed a certain kind of high: decisive, simplistic, and visceral. Bush provided "The Axis of Evil," "Mission Accomplished," and the thrill of hunting for WMDs. It was a raw, emotional power trip. For a moment, the fuzzy ambiguity of the 90s vanished. You were either with us or against the terrorists.

When everything is a crisis, nothing is a crisis. We forgot how to live at a baseline level of political sobriety. Then came November 4, 2008. The drug was gone. The "W." era ended. And the nation went into immediate withdrawal. addicted to bush 2

The Bush era taught us that we can survive a terrible addiction. But it also taught us that we will claw our way back to the dealer the moment things get quiet. In the months following the attacks, the nation