Sorry folks, I have to be very brief.
When Clinton was elected, I was married to a democrat who was in a position to know all about Clinton. I got to listen to her dad decry all the crap people were digging up about him first hand.
It was not the same kind of organized, determined campaign that has been run against Trump, but no doubt there was a sort of organized opposition doing it. But it was a series of charges, and imo based on actual information, not just made up.
I don't call it "progress" that we have developed the art to the extent now deployed.
I never liked Bush much, either. I did not want Kavanaugh nominated. I know he represents "interests" which more or less are affluent, but he is more dedicated to integrity and principle derived from the Constitution, and he does part company with those "interests" on some independent, conscientious differences on a high intellectual plane..
More or less, he is like having Mitt Romney in the SCOTUS, which is not all just peachy.
Trump has been smarter than most people can understand from the Press. He is working to consolidate a new view of the US for the future, a view that does not do away with globalism, just does not sell us down the river outright.