People have often discussed what the attitude people will have to the sections of America that were seen as pro-Rumsfeld or pro-CV.
The consensus has been...many measures of contempt. But I think that is a deep understatement, because it doesn't capture the sense of what the Rumsfeldians and the CVs have done.
I remember reading a tumblr post explaining why Hitler became so hated, and the Germans treated with so much contempt by the Western Allies. Yes, Hitler did horrible shit, but so have many other nations.
He explained it in these terms: a sense of betrayal and the narcissism of small differences.
Germany, at the time, was considered to be among the "civilized nations" that represented human progress and the best of the Enlightenment. My dad explained to me that the reason many European Jews took German names is because Germany was a nation they looked up to. It was a nation that created everything, from chemicals to Wagner.
While Japan's crimes against the Chinese were heavily jeered by many in the West, there wasn't as much contempt toward the Japanese because they were seen as members of a lesser race that would so something.
Stalin might be a mass murderer, but people say "he was a communist dictator, what did you expect?" The communist system could only breed bad people, since Lenin basically created a system by which you need to be a thug to gain control. The Marxist-Leninist political system would inevitably lead to a man who had the instincts of a gangster, and not someone like Emma Goldman, rising to power in Russia.
The point is that Germany was an advanced society, and the Nazis brought it to a level of cruelty that even George Patton couldn't easily stomach. To other Western people, another Western nation sunk into a form of cruelty that not even the Stalinists sunk too.
Eisenhower parading German civilians around the death camps was him essentially saying "you people should've known better!"
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Now, lets look at the Rumsfeldians and the CVers.
I think they might not only be hated, but they might be hated even MORE then the Lesser Mao and Magnus Malan.
Yes, the Lesser Mao killed far more people then the CVs and the Rumsfeldians ever did, but the Lesser Mao has the excuse of being under the wing of his equally corrupt and tyrannical uncle, and he had to operate in a Marxist-Leninist system where purging rivals and their families was the norm.
Magnus Malan will likely join the pantheon of history's monsters, but he was an Afrikaner, so his behavior was expected from a society built on racial, and class divisions.
America isn't merely a Western, democratic nation. America is THE Western democratic nation. It is, supposedly the beacon of freedom, the land of opportunity where anyone can rise from nothing and obtain a decent standard of living.
This was the nation keeping West Berlin alive when the Soviets menaced it, this was the nation that rebuild Western Europe to save it from a Communist takeover, this was the nation born from the ideals of the Enlightenment, the nation that once fought a war and destroyed two, totalitarian states, the nation that pursued international cooperation.
Yes the Rumsfeldians and CVs were a pack of gluttonous, glory-seeking, arrogant, murderous, selfish, sociopathic monsters. But they were people born into American society, and they treated American ideals with utter contempt, burning those ideals to pursue their fantasy worlds. America is supposed to be nation where even its worst Presidents, even those who bend the rules, wouldn't be able to demolish the system to their own benefit. Even Buchanan's bad decisions were driven by his own interpretation of the Constitution.
Yet the system itself couldn't deter them because the watchmen, the people who are supposed to keep things in check, eagerly hopped on the train into oblivion. The Supreme Court ignored signs of severe voting fraud, because their loyalty to their cause surpassed loyalty to the nation. And the people sitting in the legislature were also eager to profit from the supposed gravy train, or were more interested in their cultural values.
When the war ends, and people get a good look at the nation created by the Rumsfeldians and the CVs, the feeling of betrayal is going to be off the charts. People around the world will cry over what has become of the United States, but among Americans, the feelings of betrayal are going to be well...indescribable
Seeing your fellow Americans doing shit that shouldn't happen here (murdering a "disloyal" ethnic group, using WMDs) is going to fill many Americans with so much rage, that it means that they will have little mercy toward anyone even vaguely sympathetic toward the Rumsfeldians and CVs.
