This is from the Never Trump group The Lincoln Project:
I’m not one who thinks it’s a good idea to go easy on Trump right now because we are in a crisis. These guys don’t either. And that’s because some of us understand the existential threat Trump poses and Americans’ reflexive desire to rally around the president, any president.
These Lincoln Project guys are the ones who helped turn this into an iconic moment that made George W. Bush a wartime leader who was a shoo-in for re-election in 2004:
We knew he was a boob. But the country rallied around him anyway. Don’t think it can’t happen again.