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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Replying to @chrislhayes
Huh? The opponents of the Iraq War didn't love Bush until the war became unpopular.
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Replying to @SethAMandel
You’re saying conservative opponents of the war? They were a tiny, rump sliver of the coalition.
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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.
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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.
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But I’m both elite opinion and mass opinion among conservatives Bush was an extremely popular figure
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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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Exactly. High approval within party? Sure. "Obsessive, zealous fans"? Cmon. By that standard, Chris, couldn't you say that about most presidents?
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Bush did become *personally* a lot more popular with skeptics in the conservative press after 9/11. Remember in August 2001, when the Weekly Standard urged Don Rumsfeld to resign in protest over the insufficiency of the defense budget?
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