George W. Bush is the quintessential ruling class elite.
He wants nothing more than to see the current populist movement taking root inside the Republican Party die out in favor of a return to a party controlled by neocons and corporations.
And now George W. Bush put jaws on the floor with this stunning admission about Donald Trump.
Office of former President George W. Bush issues statement on 2024 support
To the surprise of no one who has paid attention, former Vice President Dick Cheney recently gave a full-throated endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign.
It’s been clear for some time now that the Democrat Party has become the party of warmongering neocons and the rest of the military industrial complex, so it was only natural for one of the biggest cheerleaders for endless wars in human history, Cheney, to throw his support behind Kamala as she’s promised to continue the neocons’ failed foreign policy.
After all, as Kamala herself openly bragged during her recent debate with former President Donald Trump, she also has the endorsements of “200 Republicans who have formerly worked with President [George W] Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain” – also known as some of the worst humans to have ever occupied positions of power within the Deep State.
But Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala did raise one interesting question – will former President George W. Bush follow suit?
In a statement from his “office,” the former President’s staffers quickly declared in a statement to NBC news that Bush had “retired from presidential politics years ago.”
Of course, it’s not really a secret how Bush will vote.
He claims to have written in his former neocon Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, rather than voting for either Trump or President Joe Biden in 2020, but that obviously can’t be confirmed or denied – which is likely the entire point of pretending he’s neutral.
Either way, while Bush, Cheney, and their fellow ruling class neocons continue to move towards being open members of the Democrat Party, they should take a moment to remember that they’re as responsible as anyone for the current populist wave sweeping through the Republican Party under Trump.
It was eight years of watching the Bush-Cheney regime constantly ignore working class Americans in favor of folding to Democrats and passing legislation that exclusively benefited the Deep State, ruling class, and corporate America that ultimately caused the anti-establishment fervor that led to the Tea Party and America First movements.
Bush happily worked with noted murderer and former Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) on a federal takeover of education that has produced nothing but failures for American students, and helped force through a new Medicare entitlement that has helped put America on the edge of a fiscal cliff.
George W. Bush and the necons in both parties have no one to blame but themselves
Who could forget that the Deep State, so-called “intelligence community” was put on steroids by Bush’s efforts to seize on Americans’ fears after 9/11 to enact the PATRIOT Act, shredding our Fourth Amendment right to privacy by creating a massive surveillance state that indiscriminately spies on American citizens constantly without a warrant?
But none of Bush’s failures did more to bolster the America First movement than his decision to start the Iraq war for no real reason other than satisfying Cheney and the rest of their neocon pals, and spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars bailing out banks as Americans lost their homes and livelihoods during the Great Recession.
In fact, one could easily argue that the Donald Trump we know today likely wouldn’t even exist if not for those two failures.
Bush even admitted as much when he previously told left-wing historian Dave Rubenstein that his decision to bailout the banks who caused the financial crisis in the first place was the beginning of the America First movement.
“I listened to (Hank) Paulson and (Ben) Bernanke and spent your money to bail out the guys who created the instruments in the first place, which is an absolute political disaster,” Bush told Rubenstein.
“You wonder why populism is on the rise. It starts with taking taxpayers’ money and giving it to the powerful,” Bush added. “It really irritated a lot of Americans, and they haven’t gotten over it yet. That’s just part of it; there’s a lot of other reasons why. But we’ve had candidates say, ‘You’re mad, I’m going to make you madder.’ As opposed to, ‘You’re mad, I have some solutions to make you less mad.’ We’re kind of in the madder stage, where people are exploiting the anger as opposed to dealing with it like leaders should.”
Neocons like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have no one but themselves to blame for their failures.
But that’s not going to stop them from claiming Donald Trump is somehow the root of all the evil they forced on the nation.