I remember in 2009-2010 there was an article talking about how the next competitive Republican candidate would be "even worse than Bush". I never did track it down.
We are approximately one hour from the media turning from "Trump is the worst person who has ever lived" to "[FILL IN THE BLANK 2024 COMPETITIVE REPUBLICAN] is even worse than Trump. I mean, at least Trump [FILL IN THE BLANK]."
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 20, 2021
So how's that coming along? Feel free to add in the comments your own examples over the past two years.