The journey from Bush to Trump disproves Darwin.
Nostalgia for the Grace of George H.W. Bush
'The suggestion, the vice president told his 1988 campaign diary, was “strange and unbelievable.” Twenty-eight years ago, George H. W. Bush, fresh from securing the Republican presidential nomination to succeed Ronald Reagan, was about to choose a running mate of his own. His campaign manager, Lee Atwater, always on the lookout for the unconventional and the unexpected, had apparently had informal talks with Donald J. Trump, the New York developer.
Mr. Trump, Mr. Atwater told his boss, was willing to be considered for the second spot on the Republican ticket. Mr. Bush found the thought outlandish and, after reporting the conversation in his diary, promptly forgot about it.
Now, nearly three decades later, much of America, like the George Bush of 1988, finds the possibility of a Trump administration “strange and unbelievable.” . .
In the relatively short span of a quarter century, the Republican Party has veered so far out of its usual lane that George H. W. Bush has privately said that he will be voting for the wife of the man who dispatched him from the White House — the 92-year-old’s first-ever vote for a Democratic nominee.
It’s worth recalling that the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, was relatively stable and sane as recently as two decades ago. As Henry Adams once remarked of the movement from Washington to Grant, the journey from George H. W. Bush to Donald J. Trump disproves Darwin.'
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/opinion/nostalgia-for-the-grace-of-george-hw-bush.html?
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