Except for those who actually knew him... even in Vietnam he was hated.
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I was just addressing the point about his ecoterrorist views, which he seemed to develop in the 1990s. He developed a lot of more bizarre views after the 1988 presidential run, like turning against smoking rights.
There are more than a few southernors who used to be democrats who I wouldn’t dismiss out-of-hand; I’d rather evaluate Perry on his extensive record in the past decade than fret about what he was doing in the 1980s.