re: #50 windsagio

its the next step of Bush’s “If you’re not with us, you’re against us”… “If you’re not with us, you’re an evil racist”.

IIRC, Bush made that remark soon after 911. The sentiment was very emotionally charged and shared by most of the country. It’s not appropriate, IIRC, to judge it in hindsight when one cannot recapture the emotion of the time.