The RINO party has nothing but weak attempts at false equivalency. They have a need to ease their guilt, which they do through its pathetic attempt to try to paint Trump as a normal president with the same bad character flaws of the other 44 men that served the role. It reflects poorly on them as they just show themselves to be divorced from reality and even decency. They should just man up and admit what a wretched human being Donald Trump is.
No no. you're not getting it. The guys before, like Bush, Obama, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson - they were WORSE than Trump. It's Johnson and the Whiz Kids who pretty much started it all, with the big lie of the Gulf of Tonkin, which lied us into war, and killed 60,000 American soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, over a lie. Follow that up with Nixon continuing Johnson's crimes by illegally bombing Cambodia and Laos, etc. Take that up to Reagan with Grenada and Nicaragua, etc. Move up to Bush the Elder with Panama (illegal invasion) and the Gulf War (trumped up lie like Gulf of Tonkin, only this time it was babies thrown out of incubators, which never happened), move right along to Clinton with Somalia, Bosnia/Kosovo/Serbia, Sudan, and the Iraq no fly zone and Iraq Liberation Act, then move on to Bush the Younger with the doozy of WMD and connections to 9/11 spurring on another illegal war, and then the arguably illegal Afghan war (at least after 2002, when there was no more reason to be there because the people we went in to get were all gone), and then proceed to Obama with the illegal wars in Syria and Libya and fomenting civil war in Yemen and a coup in Ukraine.
And, ou want to call THEM "normal" Presidents.
No there is no "equivalency." Trump, as much of liar and douche as he was and is, is much better than them. The reason we had this 5 year war against Trump is because the very people who wanted all those illegal wars - and add to that the secret prisons, torture and coups which I didn't even name, like in Chile and elsewhere - our military industrial complex and intelligence community - they hated Trump because they couldn't control Trump. He didn't give a **** about them or what they wanted. And, that was our chance to possibly - maybe 5% chance - to break free of what Eisenhower warned us about (the military industrial complex).
But instead, you've fallen for the narrative pushed by the killers that control our "normal" Presidents and you've bought into the idea that Trump is the bad guy. Not the guys killing millions in illegal wars for decades and literally being found out repeatedly as having lied to start these wars. Oh, no! Those are the ones we can't dare to criticize, or we're not patriotic, right?
No, there is no equivalency.