like just to put it in context bc ppl's memories are short
Clinton gutted a huge part of the social safety net with predictably disastrous results for poor Americans, passed a landmark criminal justice bill that hugely accelerated mass incarceration in addition to all his and Hillary's bullshit dog whistling about "super predators", had a long track of military adventurism, oversaw the Iraqi sanctions, etc. oh, and he signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act.
GW launched a stupid, hugely disastrous war, greatly expanded govt's ability to conduct surveillance and simultaneously reduced oversight, oversaw acceleration of deregulation that helped enable the financial crisis, slashed - in a variety of ways - taxes on the wealthy, mismanaged the fuck out of the Katrina response, tried to privatize social security, actively tried to amend the Constitution to prevent gay people from marrying each other, etc