Thinking about how Bush bypassed the press and the mainstream media made me realize something else.
It means that for many years we've had a president that has refused to engage with a large part of the country. He's been a president who has ruled only through the power of his base, who has felt no need to explain things with the rest of us, who has avoided debate, discussion and alternate perspectives.
The main failure of the Democrats in 2004 was that they failed to draw him out into a true political discourse, but then again, no wonder.
Bush has ruled with a sledgehammer rather than a scapel or some finer instrument. And the whole world has been bludgeoned.
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