I wanted to create a separate topic to not muck up any topics on Hurricane Harvey itself.
This linked story - surprisingly at HuffPo - seems like a great example of my thesis:
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_599faaefe4b0821444c25eeb/ampComments included, "Must be a Texas dog cause he can survive without help." Even in other parts of the story, they mention that "Texans are holding up good". This has got to be killing all the leftists that want the administration to fail in its response. The problem is that the hurricane hit the wrong place for partisan politics.
Bush got a ton of undeserved hate simply because Katrina hit New Orleans, where you have a predominate "help me" attitude versus an "I'll help myself" attitude. We saw that outside New Orleans, and in Mississippi in particular, people were hit just as hard, but communities were coming together and helping each other instead of crying and whining for the government to "do something". Very little news coverage of that.
We now seem to be seeing the same thing in Texas. People are dealing with the situation. Even having fun. I saw a lady photobomb a Fox reporter by bringing him a six pack of beer while he was on air. People are in good spirits, or at least the best spirits they can be in, and just handling things.
All the SJWs, etc. that were secretly hoping for a repeat of New Orleans (it's a bunch of deplorables in TX after all, so who cares what happens to them) are now being sorely disappointed by fed, state, and local governments all working together, and more importantly, individuals taking care of themselves and each other.
If anything, this will end up showing that had New Orleans been out of the picture during Katrina, "Bush's failure" would not exist, and I'm betting that when Harvey is said and done, the only links to a "Trump failure" will be petty.