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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat May 1, 2021, 08:53 AM May 2021

Bush: '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 “there’s not going to be a party. I mean I read about that and I’m saying to myself, ‘Wow, these people need to read my book.’ And I mean, it’s like saying when I was running for governor of Texas, you’ll never get any Latino votes because you’re 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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cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
1. They don't have any idea what "Anglo-Saxon" means
Sat May 1, 2021, 09:05 AM
May 2021

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?

DBoon

(22,288 posts)
3. CSA die hards still have their Civil War re-enactments
Sat May 1, 2021, 10:49 AM
May 2021

These folks must dress up in chain mail and go at it with swords

pecosbob

(7,511 posts)
4. Yeah...they got their asses kicked by some guys called 'Normans'
Sat May 1, 2021, 10:55 AM
May 2021

How embarrassing...what a bunch of pansies.

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
9. Ok, Im conflicted. On the one hand,
Sat May 1, 2021, 03:11 PM
May 2021

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?

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