You can't please everyone

There is a saying that if you try to please everybody, you just make everybody mad at you.

Former President George W. Bush is playing up the same people who were calling him a monkey. That has to stick in the craw of those who supported him thick and thin when they were savaging him like they are savaging President Trump now.

These people will never like "Dubya", so why play up to them? It is the same kind of thing that the late Senator John McCain did. By the way, there are reports that former Senator Hagel is going to support Biden. The former Senator from Nebraska did not support Bush while Bush was POTUS, but they are now in sympathy with one another.

It just goes to show you that these people really weren't opposed to the Democrats after all.  Their purported opposition was just a ruse.

All they are accomplishing with their obvious lack of support for Trump is to show why they cannot be an effective opposition to the Democrats.

If those like Bush resume their former position of leadership of the GOP,  the GOP will become a rump party with very few members. If all you can do is to agree with the opposition, then you aren't an opposition party yourself.   There's no reason for your existence.

In playing up to the Democrats who savaged him, Bush isn't gaining their love, he's only earning the contempt of his former supporters. You can't please everyone. Sometimes, you have to take a stand.

Bush said some questionable things that implied criticism of Trump. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so false. Trump isn't suppressing dissent. He is restoring order.

Bush is being a jackass here.