Somebody said, “There are no bargains at the leadership table”. Bush rolled the dice on “Screw the polls, damn the torpedoes, do whatever is necessary to take the fight to the Jihadists” . A majority of Americans ( with an influx of voter fraud) said, “This is hard, we don’t like this”, so Bush went home to Crawford with the satisfaction of having followed his principles ,leaving history to judge him.
The new guy wants to be the cool, aloof hipster ,too special to bloody himself with dealing with realpolitik . Meanwhile the global gangbangers lick their chops to slap him and take his lunch money. Scary.