How did the Republicans ruin the economy? OK.
From 2001 to 2008, the Republican leadership put into place subsidies and tax breaks that moved millions of jobs to China. In fact, the Republican Chamber of Commerce (the same group that gave Republicans 75 million dollars during the last election), along with China, gave seminars across the US on how to outsource to China.
The 2.4 trillion dollar tax break with more than 52% going to the top 1%.
The "Drugs for Votes" bill costing trillions passed through reconciliation.
The lack of building any infra structure.
Due to deregulation of Wall Street, 70% of the mortgage industry was moved from "Freddie/Fannie" to Wall Street where the bundled mortgages they sold to anyone who could sign their name overseas as securities, which they insured betting they would fail and when they did fail, collected billions (hence the term "derivatives").
The billions in no bid contracts in Iraq. Not to mention two failed wars.
Don't even get me started. There is nothing here I haven't linked to endlessly.
As far as the right wing being dangerous? Remember, Bush was the "leader" of the Republican Party. Many in that party are now saying, "Miss me yet?"
In 2002, in a survey of 38,000 people in 44 countries, the Pew Research Center found that the U.S. global image had slipped. But when we went back this spring after the war in Iraq – conducting another 16,000 interviews in 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority – it was clear that favorable opinions of the U.S. had plummeted.
Commentaries for 2010 - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
What is most striking, however, is how anti-Americanism has spread. It is not just limited to Western Europe or the Muslim world. In Brazil, 52% expressed a favorable opinion of the U.S. in 2002; this year, that number dropped to 34%. And in Russia, there has been a 25-point decline in positive opinions of the U.S. over the past year (61% to 36%).
If anything, fear and loathing of the U.S. has intensified in recent months. A Eurobarometer survey conducted among European Union countries in October found that as many people rate the U.S. as a threat to world peace as say that about Iran. Even in the United Kingdom, the United States' most trusted European ally, 55% see the U.S. as a threat to global peace. And in four countries – Greece, Spain, Finland and Sweden –
the United States is viewed as the greatest threat to peace, more menacing than Iran or North Korea.