re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There were even points on which I agreed with GWB: like immigration reform and the need to work with the Muslim world against terrorism instead of conflating and equating the two.
Right after 9/11, had the US president engaged in demagoguery vs. Muslims I’m sure we would have had at least lynchings of Muslims and possibly even full scale anti-Muslim pogroms. To his great credit, W Bush did not go down that dark path.