Reply #27: The Statement, Ma'am, Is Not That No One Liked Them

[The Magistrate]

But that many more did not than did, at least among the voting public. Indeed, the sort of attraction they held for younger people, against the inclinations of their elders, which you hint at in your comment, was one of the things many people intensely disliked about them at the time.

You have no reason whatever to suppose that Gov. Dean is not speaking his honest opinion on the matter, or that it is a newly formed opinion, contrary to some previous view.