George W. Bush Warns Republicans 'Won't Win Anything' If They Stand For 'White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism'
[quote]Former President George W. Bush suggested the Republican Party needed to reach out to a more diverse coalition of voters if it wanted to come back into power.
'If you Republican Party stands for exclusivity - you know, it used to be country clubs, now evidently it's white Anglo-Saxon Protestantism - then it's not going to win anything,' Bush said in an interview with The Dispatch podcast last week.
Bush was asked about a recent initiative from far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to form a House 'America First' caucus that's in favor of 'Anglo-Saxon political traditions,' with respect to immigration.
Asked if the GOP followed that path for the next three to five years if Bush would still be a member of the party.
'No I'd say there's not going to be a party,' Bush replied. 'You know, to me that basically says that we want to be extinct.'[/quote]
@Peapod And the likely removal of Liz Cheney soon may well be the straw that breaks the Camels back. She is the kind of solid figurehead around which a Republican splinter group can form. I believe she would attract resources and attention away from the Trumpists, with her intention being to starve the cancer in the party that Trumpism is. As an aside, the last thing Trump needs right now is someone keeping money out of his pockets. He has court battles to fight running into hundreds of Millions in costs. And he wants the Party to pay.
@Peapod At this point genuine Conservatives have a decision of conscience to make. Ride the tiger in an attempt to hold power. (Hows that working out for you so far?) Or decide to not turn out for something they dont believe in as a form of radical surgery to purge the sickness from the party. Now in My view that is what Paul Ryan did very early in the piece. If as few as five to ten percent of Republican voters simply stay home, the party will lose pretty much every contest and Flush the Cruzs, McConnells Grahams and Greenes from party.
@whowasthatmaskedman [quote]If as few as five to ten percent of Republican voters simply stay home, the party will lose pretty much every contest and Flush the Cruzs, McConnells Grahams and Greenes from party.[/quote]
