Always remember--- IT IS REPUBLICANS,,,, not just TRUMP..

[pangaia]

George H.W. Bush's Decency Is What Republicans Hope You'll Remember Him For
Peter Birkenhead
HuffPost Opinion•December 4, 2018

This brilliant expose of GHWB and republicans in general is exactly how I feel.

And there are links supporting quite a few of the writer's points. Good links !!

Odes to the button-downed bonhomie with which he blithely started wars, stoked racism, lied to the American people, defied federal prosecutors and pardoned criminals to cover up his complicity in their crimes.

Poetic waxing to the noblesse oblige with which he laid the foundations for the carceral state, allowed a generation of young gay men to die in needless agony and single-mindedly pursued the interests of a ruling class bent on removing all restraints on its own depravity.

Washington is the kind of town where they disapprove of eating dead babies with a salad fork. That’s why D.C. media types have devoted hours of coverage to thank-you notes, service dogs and broccoli ― and deemed any attention paid to Bush’s long list of malfeasances narrow-minded, even childish. It might be impossible to count the number of times the flagrant liar, pardoner of cronies and employer of virulent racist tropes has been called “honorable” in thepastfew days.

SNIP

Even a cursory consideration of the 30 years between the Bush and Trump presidencies will remind us that those shifts only intensified under Bush and continued apace after he left office. The story of the right wing in America never changes, with its incantations of trickle-downscripture, garbled insurrectionist rhetoric, GI Joe cosplay and misty-eyed nostalgia for Jim Crow and legal date rape. It’s been a decades-long tragedy dell’arte, populated by a cast of grotesques whose saving grace, in the eyes of those who ritually honor them, has been the good manners that Trump, the vulgar Queens real estate developer, never learned to cultivate.

And it gets better---- or worse, if you will.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/bush-wasn-apos-t-better-235220774.html

[dlk]

1. Of Course-It's Republicans Who Gave Us Trump

He is one of them and not an aberration—part of the team.

[pangaia]

7. They love him, UNTIL they retire,

Them well, then they have the balls to say something, but still just for their own self-preservation, or self-protection, or or...

[DontBooVote]

2. They are a domestic enemy and they must not be allowed to continue existing.

[Adrahil]

3. I agree... and I remind my "moderate" GOP acquaintances of this.

You can't vote for some GOP asshole because you want tax cuts and deregulation (and how has THAT worked out for us?) but then complain that you don't support Trump personally. The GOP is not holding Trump accountable. They are not acting as a Constitutional check. They are complicit.

[CrispyQ]

4. If they found worse than W they will find worse than the Con. -nt

[harumph]

5. If Trumps bad manners turns moderate republicans away - we're the better for it.

Yes, it's a superficial reason - but many people are not capable intellectually or
emotionally brave enough to handle the truth. When Trump is gone, wealthy republicans will agree that
he was awful... (BUT) he did get them their tax cuts. That's because at the very bottom of their
ragged souls, they're transactionally driven. What do I mean by this? It's always the republican
sibling that makes a list of what she wants to get from the house, prior to her parent's death.
It's ALWAYS the bottom line. That's who they are - and may not even realize it themselves.
They hate how Trump looks b/c the optics are bad - but they'll take him any day over
Hillary - who would've raised taxes on them. Like children, they see only what's in front of
their nose. Damn the societal consequences.

[pangaia]

6. Well stated-- the blind, or not so blind, greed and self-interest is inhuman.