Liberals No Longer See George W. Bush As The Devil Incarnate

When George W. Bush speaks, liberals react.

But when Bush defended freedom of the press in an interview with Matt Lauer, liberals reacted very differently than ever before.

Here's a sample from Twitter:

George Takei: "You know things are bad when George W. Bush starts sounding like a member of the Resistance."

Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom: "I am typing these words: President George W. Bush is right. Freedom of the press is 'indispensable to democracy.'"

Glenn Greenwald: 2005: George W Bush is a pillaging, torturing war criminal who let a city drown.

2017: I may have disagreed with Bush but he was A Good Man™.

Jedd Legum, Editor ThinkProgress: "When did George W. Bush become a voice of reason?"

It wasn't so long ago that liberals routinely compared Bush to Hitler, said he lied about WMDs in Iraq or claimed he had advance knowledge of 9/11.

Perhaps all these years spent painting portraits in relative silence during the Obama Administration has softened feeling towards Bush. Perhaps liberals are learning how a real demagogue acts. Perhaps liberals are learning that George W. Bush was never the fascist, racist or Nazi they thought.

But there's a good chance liberals haven't learned anything. We'll know if they start praising President Trump when another Republican sits in the Oval Office.