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Post-9/11 American public sentiment was malleable enough that leaders could have directed it toward inward-looking demagoguery instead of foreign war.

Drawn from what Matthew Yglesias said

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  1. Matthew Yglesias

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    If Bush had wanted to whip people up into an inward-looking demagogic fervor instead of an external-facing one, he clearly could have accomplished that, too.

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