Democrats' thread-worn campaign rhetoric

They're in a rut.

Listen to this nasty Democratic rhetoric and guess which president they were smearing:

“…[E]verything about the…president, each strange tic and motion—the street thug’s swagger, the inability to compose his face into a civil expression, the problem with alcohol, the apparent lack of formal education, and so forth—conjured in Europe the worst of clichés about …barbarism.” (Edited to hide the answer.)

Trump? Nope, George W. Bush

What’s remarkable about this is the familiarity of this kind of personal attack.

The above quote and more is from an NBC story, 'Not by accident': False 'thug' narratives have long been used to discredit civil rights movements: Demands for equity and equality are portrayed as threatening and dangerous

I don’t agree with everything in the article; I post it because it reveals the sad state that we’re in.