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‘Morally indefensible’ – but George W Bush will not come out against Trump (www.theguardian.com)

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While Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, there have been no comments from other senior Republicans from Bush’s era

The MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell this week hit out at George W Bush, the Republican former president, for refusing to weigh in on America’s looming presidential election.

“All any decent person wants him to do is to say, ‘Don’t vote for Donald Trump, and here’s why,’ and he won’t even do that,” O’Donnell told the Fast Politics podcast, of the Republican president who was in office from 2001 to 2009.

Increasingly, Bush – and some other top Republicans from his political era – are looking lonely in their ongoing refusal to take a side in an election in which many have warned that US democracy is under threat from Trump’s open sympathies with autocracy.

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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago

I mean, Bush and Trump are in direct competition for worst presidents in living memory.

...and they both kinda jimmy with elections. They have a lot in common really so it makes sense he'll be averse to calling out someone whose not that dissimilar to himself.

Also Bush has a generational bonding to the GOP, so there's probably some level of moral compromise in that.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 36 points 2 months ago

I had Bush ahead of Trump for a long time, but now I have to give it to Donnie.

It's one thing to lie about a war, and a whole differnet level to plan to kill citizens with Covid.

[-] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

Both were awful. At least you don't fall for the rehabilitation so many in our media have been doing of Bush

[-] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Both are incredibly incompetent. However, I think if Bush had not become president he would have been seen as somebody who is a bit stupid, and easy to influence, but otherwise a pleasant personality. Trump on the other hand was a criminal long before he saw the Oval Office.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Bush was terrible, for sure. But it was at least believable that he was doing what he thought was best for the country (Cheney, Rove, and Rumsfeld, not so much). But there is no way you'll ever convince me that Trump cares about anyone or anything other than himself.

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

But look, he paints! Just like Bob Ross, so that means we can just forget about all that other stuff, right?

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