By exploiting the emotions around 9/11, Mr. Bush took a far-right agenda on taxes, the environment and social issues – for which he had no electoral mandate – and drove it into a 9/12 world. In doing so, Mr. Bush made himself the most divisive and polarizing president in modern history.

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