Absolutely! He’s the main reason Bush lost so much of the base by encouraging the worst tendencies - reckless spending, open borders, entitlements, etc. Right now the Dems are still bashing Bush a year and a half after he left office because of Rove’s big government legacy.
Ping!
Amen The “architect” drove the Republican Party off the cliff.
I’m not prepared to assign all the blame to Tokyo Rove for that.
A president is supposed to have the courage of his convictions. If W was so easily swayed into adopting these policies, then he was clearly not up to the job.
My suspicion is that W agreed with these (cf. “compassionate conservatism” BLECH!) and was thus talked into implementing crap he already agreed with.