The sad thing is that a lot of good people were chased off this website because they dared to call out GWB as a liberal globalist tool more than a decade ago.
You are correct. There was little toleration for dissent back then. I hope people have woken up and learned.
A whole lot
No one has ever apologized for those purges which drove away and/or silenced all but the group-thinking party loyalists. For years during the second Bush administration, it was as good as a zot or banning to question GOP orthodoxy.
The list of those zotted for daring to speak up against Dubya’s illegal alien amnesty would astonish freepers who weren’t here to witness it. The howlin hyena pack played a big role in it.
And I still remember amnesty pushers here posting SPLC propaganda to buttress their attacks on immigration patriots.
How the worm has turned.