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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBush: 'Anglo-Saxon' ideals show pro-Trump Republicans 'want to be extinct'
Former president speaks as lone anti-Trump Republican seeks House seat in Texas special election
Martin Pengelly in New York
@MartinPengelly
Sat 1 May 2021 08.29 EDT
Ahead of a special election on Saturday to replace a Texas congressman who died after contracting Covid-19, former president George W Bush said the ascendancy of supporters of Donald Trump suggest Republicans want to be extinct.
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Bush is promoting a new book, a collection of portraits and stories of immigrants. In an interview released on Friday by the Dispatch, an anti-Trump conservative podcast, he was asked about recent moves by pro-Trump extremists to form a congressional caucus promoting Anglo-Saxon traditions.
To me that basically says that we want to be extinct, he said.
If such trends continued, Bush said, in three to five years theres not going to be a party. I mean I read about that and Im saying to myself, Wow, these people need to read my book. And I mean, its like saying when I was running for governor of Texas, youll never get any Latino votes because youre Republican. And I said you watch. And I worked hard.
And the key thing was to let them know that I could hear their voice. I mean, democracy is great in that sense. And the idea of kind of saying you can only be Republican if, then the ultimate extension of that is it ends up being a one-person party.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/01/george-w-bush-anglo-saxon-donald-trump-republicans-texas-congressional-election
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Bush: 'Anglo-Saxon' ideals show pro-Trump Republicans 'want to be extinct' (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2021
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cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)1. They don't have any idea what "Anglo-Saxon" means
or any notion of Anglo-Saxon values. What they mean, I suppose, is white folk descended from Western Europeans who don't care whose rights they trample just so long as they get theirs.
Was there ever a more ignorant bunch of bigots?
Have our schools ever failed us on such a grand scale?
tanyev
(42,360 posts)2. I never realized there were Battle of Hastings dead enders still out there.
DBoon
(22,288 posts)3. CSA die hards still have their Civil War re-enactments
These folks must dress up in chain mail and go at it with swords
tanyev
(42,360 posts)5. The South East shall rise again!
DBoon
(22,288 posts)6. The South Saxons ("Sussex") will rise again!
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)4. Yeah...they got their asses kicked by some guys called 'Normans'
How embarrassing...what a bunch of pansies.
DBoon
(22,288 posts)7. The Normans even spoke French!
Srkdqltr
(6,129 posts)8. Most of the ones pushing this stuff are not Anglo Saxon.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)9. Ok, Im conflicted. On the one hand,
Fucking DIM SON just articulated exactly what the cult of trump is doing to itself (albeit using his own language, as he does).
On the other hand--Im sorry, War Criminal says wut?
roamer65
(36,739 posts)10. Shrub was the last "Republican" president.
Now its a party of fascist crazies.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)11. Interestingly, Dubya was never as dumb as he looked. He is quite right about this. nt
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)12. Anglo saxon ideals like animal and human sacrifice, worshipping woden, etc.
JHB
(37,132 posts)13. I'll start believing they're really "Anglo-Saxon" when they change their names to "Hengist".