Aristocracy
Listening to Sultan Bush's "farewell" press conf. One question was: Why do you think your opponents are so ferocious? Why does "Bush Derangement Syndrome" prevail?
Bush's answer was typically useless and moronic, something like "I don't pay attention to them."
The real answer is more interesting. American leftists hate Bush for the exact same reason they hate Nixon: aristocracy, plus a bit of cognitive dissonance.
Nixon continued and expanded on LBJ's policies, and continued LBJ's political tactics. Watergate was nothing new. The Left hated Nixon because he did not possess the
divine right to carry out the policies and tactics of the Left.
Bush's domestic agenda is Teddy Kennedy's domestic agenda. His war policy is a direct continuation of Clinton war policy. The Left hates Bush because he does not possess the
divine right to implement Emperor Teddy's policies.
American Leftists talk about ideology, but they are exclusively and solely aristocrats. If they paid even a tiny bit of attention to policy and results, they would love Nixon and Bush, and they would hate JFK.