Former President George W. Bush is a surprisingly popular guy these days. He’s hanging out with Lady Gaga. He’s cracking jokes on stage with fellow former President Barack Obama. He’s viewed favorably by a significant majority of Americans, including 82 percent of Republicans.

But if you spent the evening at the California Republican Party’s convention last Friday, you got to hear the crowd roar with applause and laughter as former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon declared George W. Bush to have been mentally incompetent, embarrassing, and to have been the most “destructive” president in American history.