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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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[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Former presidents dont typically get involved in presidential politics(especially of their own party ) after they leave.

They'll typically stump for candidates in their own party if they were a popular former president.

You could argue that his lack of involvement with Trump's campaign is pretty telling.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Morally indefensible but thank the Lord we don’t have any morals to worry about

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

"Man far worse than Trump refuses to condemn Trump" lol big surprise.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

Cheney, you bag of roasting chicken shit, take Bush hunting and talk to him.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 1 month ago

Hes in a special position. If trump did not exist he would be in the running for worst president.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Nah Regan's got that shit locked down. Trump wouldn't even have been possible without Regan.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 month ago

hey man then you know there is the OG nixon.

[-] steve_floof@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

My moral barometer, George W. Bush

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Honestly find it odd that he hasn't come out for Harris considering he's the first one to look at President Trump and say "this is weird shit". It's not like Bush is in politics anymore I don't see how ditching Trump would hurt him in any way

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I'd venture to guess that the dude has just checked out from politics and world events entirely.

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[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The need for validation from war criminals is the problem along with this silent shift to the right by Dems. This would be a good time for Dems to actually become a party for the working class/poor.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

If he had any decency he'd have sliced his own belly open

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

he is a fellow repuglican after all

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