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    1. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 4 Jun 2019

      One thing I find fascinating about the intra-right debate is that more or less everyone now pretends they weren’t all obsessive, devoted, zealous fans of George W Bush, which by and large they were, at least until he became very unpopular.

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    2. Seth Mandel‏Verified account @SethAMandel 4 Jun 2019
      Replying to @chrislhayes

      Huh? The opponents of the Iraq War didn't love Bush until the war became unpopular.

      5 replies 2 retweets 26 likes
    3. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 4 Jun 2019
      Replying to @SethAMandel

      You’re saying conservative opponents of the war? They were a tiny, rump sliver of the coalition.

      9 replies 6 retweets 228 likes
    4. Fr. Bill Dailey, CSC‏ @wrdcsc 4 Jun 2019
      Replying to @chrislhayes @SethAMandel

      How large do you suppose the group debating between Sohrab and David are? I’d wager they could fit into a modestly sized Arby’s. We could name 90% of them.

      1 reply 0 retweets 31 likes
    5. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 4 Jun 2019
      Replying to @wrdcsc @SethAMandel

      I mean it’s the nature of these kinds of debates, wherever they are on the ideological spectrum, to take place among a rather small set.

      2 replies 0 retweets 40 likes
    6. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 4 Jun 2019
      Replying to @chrislhayes @wrdcsc @SethAMandel

      But I’m both elite opinion and mass opinion among conservatives Bush was an extremely popular figure

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 Jun 2019
      Replying to @chrislhayes @wrdcsc @SethAMandel

      Bush's domestic agenda always had aspects that were controversial on the Right, but the reality of 2001-05 is that a lot of the criticism was muted because of the focus on war. The result was a lot of suppressed frustrations that came roaring back later.

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        2. Seth Mandel‏Verified account @SethAMandel 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @chrislhayes @wrdcsc

          Exactly. High approval within party? Sure. "Obsessive, zealous fans"? Cmon. By that standard, Chris, couldn't you say that about most presidents?

          5 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
        3. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @SethAMandel @baseballcrank @wrdcsc

          I think you guys are memory-holeing a whole lot of rhetoric about the guy, who, above all else, triggered the libs and was fighting a war for civilization’s survival and was thus great.

          7 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
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        2. Chris Hayes‏Verified account @chrislhayes 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @wrdcsc @SethAMandel

          Right but the public performance was relentlessly, unsparingly vicious towards the wars opponents and critics, and Bush was a totem of rightness and resoluteness

          16 replies 16 retweets 294 likes
        3. David‏ @ivanomartin 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @chrislhayes @baseballcrank and

          They even killed off the Dixie Chicks.

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        1. Inimitable Spongeworthy‏ @spongeworthy2 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @chrislhayes and

          A war Democrats were happy to vote us into so they could flip on a dime one month in (with zero accountability.) We're supposed to feel bad about having Bush's back after that travesty?

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        1. Robert Arnold‏ @Fergus302 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @chrislhayes and

          “We never liked [blank] because we knew all along he was horrible, we just acted like it and falsely attacked all his opponents” is a useful dodge we can keep running until someone stops it.

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        1. Ron Miller  🇨🇦  🇺🇸  🌊‏ @ronm88 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @chrislhayes and

          I suspect the same is true of Trump, but replace war with the economy. As long as the economy is crusing along, people overlook a lot. If the economy hits serious road bumps in the next year, things could change very quickly.

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        1. constans‏ @constans 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @chrislhayes and

          The “frustrations” with W were all muted “I don’t agree with his tarrifs, but it’s indisputable he is the greatest president of our lifetime”

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        2. Kenneth Jimenez‏ @MrKennyJimenez 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank @chrislhayes and

          This just isn’t true. Other than his move to put his friend Harriet Miers in the Supreme Court, his agenda was hugely popular with Republicans/Conservatives.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 4 Jun 2019
          Replying to @MrKennyJimenez @chrislhayes and

          Depends who you mean. Movement conservatives never liked Part D or NCLB. A big grassroots faction never liked his moderation on immigration.

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