George W. Bush has been a consistent Republican voice against the divisive politics of Donald Trump — but is there room for him in today’s GOP? In this latest episode of The Point, CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains why Bush’s self-proclaimed "compassionate conservative" politics don’t exactly line up with where the party is post-Trump.
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING:
George W. Bush on Capitol insurrection: "I was sick to my stomach"
President Bush's Plan For Comprehensive Immigration Reform
President George W. Bush on Compassionate Conservatism
Trump Lashes Out at Impeachment Foes and Pelosi Hits Back
Barbara Bush on Donald Trump: ‘I’m sick of him’
George W. and Laura Bush vote for none-of-the-above
Bush congratulates Biden, says election was 'fundamentally fair' and 'its outcome is clear'
The slew of Senate Republican retirements prove who's in charge of the GOP now
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Do you think George W. Bush is courageous to take a stand against Trump? – Chris
@HemiHead664 Etched in stone, Bro.
@Obsidian Blue Oh yes he did! This isn’t the makings of the Confederates. The Nazi’s are the ones being paid by the super rich.
@J-Man
Nazis as in white nationalists, poud boys and other trump so called militia groups.
@Obsidian Blue Yup! Yooz will not replace us!
@Comrade Jason that was true until the pandemic.
When you make George Dubya Bush seem reasonably intelligent…
@chris bale Surprisingly your right.
@Comment 200 This coming from a Democrat with no education and a double digit IQ who can’t feed herself without welfare…
Cracked code https://youtu.be/yhqtt1qf6Cs
@TRUMP 2024 also the fact members of your party want to “defund colleges” because they are “liberal” so tell us again how a Democrat is uneducated?
When libtards totally forgot about Bush what does it tell y’all people will forget especially libtards
Do we really need to talk about the former guy. Now, that we finally fired him? And, it feels so GD good.
@brian gardner and you voted for an even more corrupt slumlord
@Belly Dancer Em We’ll see. Gotta feeling we might wish he was back before too long.
@On Cam That’s your TDS showing. You were probably one of the ones that said he overfed the Japanese goldfish also.
Lol happy with Biden? Lololol
@Sapo Con Zapatos They’re in the denial stage currently. We still have plenty more gaffes, potential faceplants, America last policies and or authoritarian rule to come from this establishment creep.
Trump’s most lasting legacies will be that he made GW look a lot less dumb and Nixon look a lot less corrupt.
@April Campbell not as funny as the joke in the oval office at this time…the US is the laughing stock of the world now..
@Daniyal Virk i thought he did ok. But he had to deal with the Republicans who tried to shut him down. But he got more than trump did. In spite of them with Hillary on his team. Sorry all you haters. That was one of the grump lines. And you know it. That was another one of grump lines. The pig is done he’s going to jail people. He’ll match his orange suite.
@Glen Johnson yep
@Roxanne Hill You make so many good points but the one that strikes dead center is that political party was irrelevant — I, too, would never have voted for Trump whatever label he was wearing. How can this man have so many fans, or fanatics. He is stupid, vulgar and obviously a nasty human being. It’s not just the question of what voters see in Trump to respect; what does anyone see to like?
@soylentdean Who needs facts when you mindlessly mouth slurs? You’re a toot off the old trumpet.
When George W. Bush is showing you up, both politically and morally/ethically, you need to take a hard, long look at your life b.
Edit: lmao it seems I’ve upset the snowflakes. 😂
I love how with these types of comments, we always find out how many of them watch their mortal enemy CNN and who the Trump Apologist Snowflakes are.
Thx OP, it was a good read. Lmao
@TRUMP 2024
I’d rank Trump as Worst ever, followed by Nixon and then Dubya.
@Belly Dancer Em So how do you make enough money to save for your retirement as a “belly dancer”? You know nobody’s going to want to see your old, wrinkly belly when you hit 50 right? Don’t expect us to support you because you made a poor career choice.
@Christopher Green yeah in your mind I guess he shot them all single handedly. The CCP are totally innocent. Sure BTW I got some bridges for sale from London. Did Cumo help with the nursing homes. How about those thousands hitting the border every week?
@Mike Rivera right. He isn’t a bad guy. He just got personal with it.
It’s like Jekyll and Hyde, but written by Marvel Comics.
True. Hidin’ Biden.
@soylentdean ,.hah,heh,ha,hah,Dean the Ween😆
This episode of the Point was edited well. Good episode.
Who? Oh wait, the guy who STOLED the election from Al Gore. The Bush family is just as toxic as the Dumps.
More revisionist history and fake news from the Chinese News Network. 🤣
Bush. I never thought a worse person could be elected president in my lifetime. Man, I was so wrong.
@Rod can’t imagine what you must think of criminally insane and racist Dump.
The worst of ANY Country. And he brainwashed millions of Americans to embrace hatred.
Yeah blackwater scandal, two illegal wars, 911, cheneys halliburton, etc….
@1984 THEBEGINING Trump made things worse in America than necessary. Go back to 2018 when he abolished the Pandemic Response Team. Or the first time he told America about the Pandemic, he lied about how bad it could be. He followed that up with 6 months of lies about the Pandemic.
Bush is way worse lmao
Yeah, Jr. knows all about “allegedly stolen” elections.
Well but we have the master of all masters now …. Introducing Senile Joey…. The problem he does NOT know it . LOL
@Rod Ortiz election wasnt stolen. Let it go.
@Eliyafeth Soto Let it go, Let it go,
Simply put, on all levels, he GOP is a lost cause.
@Schievelbein Schievelbein I think what he’s saying is the GOP is morally bankrupt and hopelessly corrupt
Yeah, it really is.
Fascism is always a lost cause.
@Schievelbein Schievelbein Calm yourself – I’m sure your party will yet turn us into a rightwing extremist fascist dictatorship soon enough – and then you can really celebrate how truly American you think you are ………..
…and corrupted cause.
I’ve literally seen Trump supporters refer to Bush as a communist. Shows you how completely off the wall they are.
@TRUMP 2024 um the blue states handed the covid better than the red states. You are just biased and brainwashed g’day
Lol
Bush is a pos.
@Rod Ortiz It’s ironic Trump and Trumpsters continue to call actually Republicans “RINOS” when Trump joined the GOP in 2012… Trumpsters and Trump are the worst America has created since the KKK.
@TRUMP 2024 Trump is no different than a traitor.
Its weird, but W Bush has never seemed like the man to make the decisions he did. He got a very unique historical moment and that made him what he was. Now that he is an ex-president, I actually like him.
Bush has killed the USA with the Iraq war.
Trump is just the result of the dying of the USA.
Like a fart of a corpse.
Major Moolah – Bush took too much advice from his father’s neocon friends. Trump wouldn’t take any advice.
@J Groovy and they were both shitshows
While his presidency after his 9/11 surge wasn’t great and average at best, you know Bush is a good and genuine person. Just as Carter wasn’t a very good president, he is a great man.
@Vlad the Inhaler not as much as the decisions of Trump throughout Covid which lead to hundred of thousands of deaths that were avoidable.
The “Jeb!” will forever haunt Jeb!
*Wait.. so when republicans have no political future they come back to reality..? I for one am SHOCKED!*
Wait till 2022 and 2024 …. You will REALLY be shocked LOL
I actually don’t think they will ever come back to reality. They seem to keep doubling down on the whole white male thing. I say that as a white male myself, but they seem to be out of touch with the idea that to win elections nowadays (at least the popular vote) you need to try to appeal to more than just white males.
There’s a famous video where John McCain was booed for not insulting Barack Obama
Cracked code https://youtu.be/yhqtt1qf6Cs
Fox fake news and rush had already planted the seed of hate in these people, and trump was watching it all.
Yeah the GOP went nuts in the 1990s between Right wing radio and the sleazy corruption of the Clinton’s it broke their brains
My graduate training was as a contextualist. That is, viewing how things turn out as not being due to something inherent to them or to unique idiosyncratic influences, but rather to broader context that can often escape the naked eye. George Bush had the luxury of being president during a pre-cellphone, pre-Twitter and pre-Facebook era, when more people got their news from newspapers and the dreaded mainstream media than from Youtube videos and 140-character off-the-cuff sarcastic slags. We tend to overlook how large an impact that has had on what passes for both “news” and political discourse.
Remember when John mccain was booed for respecting his opponent in the 2009 presidential election
@Jamtommy give us proof before u run ur mouth trumpet
McCain was a warmonger.
@Ryan R
The proof is in your own memory, unless you don’t have one dullard.
@Vlad the Inhaler
The only war Old Songbird McCain didn’t *Love* was the one he was in.
Yeah. And rightfully so because Obama was and is a P.O.S.
I love that Mermaid Man clip, man that brings me back 🤣
Good Points! Thank you! Mic’21 ADOS South
Good piece Chris. Cheers